Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
Last week the Generalissimo sent his second telegram of invitation to Mao Tse-tung: "To achieve national reconstruction and reap the fruits of the war of resistance will depend to a great extent upon your coming to Chungking to discuss and jointly formulate our national policies. ... I cannot but feel sorry you are delaying your departure...
...nearest approach to a man of genius in Russia's great tradition. The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes. He does not come to Moscow to spend the writers' tremendous royalties and reap his great honors. He refuses to become the president of the Writers' Un ion, because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just now putting the finishing touches to his new novel, They Fought for Their Country. Sholokhov gets...
...required to pursue her through the better part of twelve reels, putting up patiently with her censorious attitude toward his broken marriage, laughing off her impulsive escapades with other men, listening cheerfully while she excuses herself from responsibility to him by explaining that a girl doesn't reap full measure from marriage in wartime, and, in general, sampling nearly every indignity capable of being inflicted on man by woman...
...fourth of the notes a year into Paramount common stock at a fixed price of $25 a share, as long as he remained with the company. Thus, if the stock rose above $25 (at week's end it was selling at $25⅞) Balaban could convert the notes, reap a profit. If it dropped, President Balaban simply hung on to the balance of his notes. Obviously this was a considerable inducement to Barney Balaban not to retire...