Word: sow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MURROW: There is a time to live and a time to die-a time to sow and a time to reap-a time to laugh and a time to cry. This auction might well be called the death of a small farm . . . Dale Peterson was one of about 3,000 Iowa small farmers who quit in the last six months. In the nation, 600,000 have given up in the last four years. . . Some economists and agricultural experts claim that we are witnessing the death of the small farm in the United States-that in a world of machines...
...Indian Fighter, first production of an independent company formed by Actor Kirk Douglas, is one of the more successful of Hollywood's current attempts to sow a wild oater. The picture begins with a closeup shot of a shapely Indian girl (Elsa Martinelli) undressing by the side of a forest stream. After a while a paleface (Kirk Douglas) moseys by, and the two of them engage in some water play. By the time Actor Douglas gets out of the drink, he is really in the Siouxp. Old Red Cloud is attacking the fort...
...Sow. In Clairfield, Tenn., after he disappeared from the Army in 1942, Farmer Hubert Osborne dug a tunnel from his house to the barn to use as an escape route if the MPs ever showed up, panicked when they finally arrived, ran across the lawn dropping a telltale trail of bran from a sack he was carrying, was arrested, charged with desertion...
...class interested in propaganda analysis could do no better than to compare your two recent articles on Mr. Nixon and on Mr. Harriman. You have accomplished the impossible. Not only have you made a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but now you have made a sow's ear out of a silk purse...
While Zoni Williamson, Joe's ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans...