Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baffling riddle: how this war is possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely." Now he was 36. and in the final hour of his life. A shrapnel burst from French guns crushed the seed forever...
...season, instead of 15 years, Dr. Wheeler got disease-resistant oat seed, which he is holding for further testing. His experiment cost only about 800 man-hours of labor. He thinks it will prove helpful in breeding many kinds of disease-resistant plants...
...When the seed sprouts, the young roots absorb the Thimet, and as the plant grows, the poison spreads through it without doing any harm. But insects that eat the plant or suck its juices die of their poisoned meal...
...trial jury). Neither priest nor church nor neighbor might come between a Baptist and his God. This could lead to a deep personal religion, and it could also produce a welter of small, off-beat sects, e.g., the Duck River, General Six-Principle, Primitive or Hard Shell, and Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. And all this spiritual nonconformity was often matched by an ironbound, triple-riveted social conformity, designed to keep everything and everybody in its place-especially the Negro...
Married. Nancy Kelly, 34, actress of stage (The Bad Seed) and screen; and Warren Caro, 48, Theatre Guild executive; she for the third, he for the second time; in Manhattan...