Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-term Congressman from northern Minnesota, is an authentic sodbuster who knows the ups and downs of farming at first hand. Son of a mechanic and farmer, he spent two winters as a carpenter to work off debts before making a go of a 600-acre spread planted to seed and feed grain hard by the Canadian border near Roseau, Minn...
Left University of Minnesota after two years when money ran out . . . Operates a 600-acre grain and grass seed farm in Minnesota . . . In 1960s was Agriculture Department's Midwest administrator of price supports, production control and storage programs . . . Lashes Earl Butz's laissez-faire policies . . . Believes in farm price supports, backed by stockpiling if necessary . . . Says that "the free market system ends at our borders-in the world market we must deal with governments" . . . Wants a protective tariff on imported sugar...
Ginger Thomson and Meg Losser, at third and fourth seed, went down to defeat, with Thomson battling through four close games...
...ecology minded is offered by Spectrum Marketing Co. of London, Ontario. It is made of plastic and disintegrates within 90 days after being exposed to the elements. Spectrum says the plastic even contains a fertilizer that is released as the tee dissolves. An advanced model contains grass seed to help restore tee areas. --The Wall Street Journal...
...what his wife does for a living. She is a mathematician, the author explains. The Hasid has no idea what the occupation is. "Do you recognize the name of Einstein?" "Never. Who is he?" In me, reflects Bellow, "he sees what deformities the modern age can produce in the seed of Abraham. In him I see a piece of history, an antiquity...