Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...councillors had trouble seeing him. During his last few years as manager, government took on all the characteristics of a Boston counting house, and demands for slum clearance, better roads, additional parking space, and better schools have been ignored. It was a case of Business-Like Government gone to seed...
...political planting time in the farm belt. On the same day last week, both presidential candidates climbed on a tractor-drawn flatbed wagon, rode around Henry Snow's gently rolling land in Dodge County, Minn., and sowed the seed from which they hope to reap the farm vote. The occasion was the National Plowing Contest, and 40,000 Mackinawed and jacketed residents of the farm country came to see the new machines, the tests of plowing skill (contour & level land) and the candidates...
...through all the violence, contradiction and distortion of his denunciations, his personal credo rings clear: "Improve your standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" And when he says, for once in simple seriousness, that "good seed is seldom sown in vain," musicians, the world over, can only wish him better soil and an even bigger sweep...
...seed furled, The stirred dust...
...second, the shape of a sake cup; on the third, the shape of a soup bowl; on the fourth, the shape of a saucer." By the end of the fourth day, the pale pink petals begin to wither and turn brown. Soon, all that is left is the seed pod, splayed out like an upright shower nozzle. "It just goes to show you," said Dr. Lotus, "that plants do not undergo evolutionary changes in 2,000 years. Even the size and color is the same...