Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...
Author Rawlings wondered why Mr. Martin would take a scrawny sow. Mr. Higgenbotham explained. "Well, when you figger on a sow, you figger on more than a sow. You buy you a sow, and directly you've got a litter of pigs to boot. . . . Now I'm carrying that sow there to Mr. Martin's boar hog. You know sows?" Mrs. Rawlings said no. "Well, a sow's peculiar. Times, she'll take, and again she'll not take. It all depends on the moon. Now last moon, she'd not of took...
...people of the Moscow area number more than 8,000,000. They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat...
...many students of American history know that the river was named by Prince Charles himself when John Smith presented a map to him, asking him to bestow names on all the landmarks? How many have heard the story of Goody Sherman's sow and its effect on our history, of the launching of the frigate "Constitution" at the mouth of the river, of the annual income of 100 pounds given to Harvard from the tolls collected on the bridges across the Charles? These and many other chapters in the story of the river are recounted by Mr. Tourtellot with considerable...
Baron von Thermann has found Argentina a fairly fertile spot in which to sow the seed of Nazi doctrine. Though only about 235,000 of Argentina's 13,000,000 inhabitants are Germans, many of them are well-to-do and influential. German-controlled investments in the country add up to about $1,500,000,000. The Argentine Government, under Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, has done its best to turn an austerely neutral face to the world. But in spite of several stump-toed Nazi plots (including one for German annexation of Patagonia, uncovered in 1939), the only...