Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself? Will we substitute consensus for challenge? Will a devotion to agreement keep us from those tasks that are disagreeable? Tonight, for myself, I turn back to the ancient Scriptures for the answer: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap...
...mathematicians expect to be able to see from the main computing center," asks Ivan Malyshev, deputy chief of the Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
...gardening, as in most other pursuits, the buyer gets pretty much what he pays for. Bargain hunting in seeds is especially risky because not even an expert can detect a bad seed. And, as the Apostle Paul reminded the Galatians: Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...
Mounting Concern. The implication was that since the Cold War is clearly less icy than it used to be, the U.S. might as well reap some domestic benefits. Not long before Fulbright made his Miami speech, he had assessed the world situation in moderately optimistic terms. "We Americans need patience, along with some other things like wisdom, but when you think back to 20 years after World War I and compare it to our situation 20 years after World War II, I'd say we are in a lot better shape today." As for President Johnson, "he has been...
...until after 1924, when the British Colonial Office took over control of the colony and the expense of running it, did Chartered begin to reap stable financial rewards. Though it operated no mines itself, it handed out concessions to South African companies. It now owns an interest in most of the territory's mines, which produce 15% of the world's copper; royalties from their operations accounted for $18 million of the British South Africa Co.'s net earnings of $22 million last year...