Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black lamb's fur cap of the Kamâlists went to Lausanne to discuss permanent peace terms with the Allies. The British condescendingly had the conference postponed for ten days because of a general election at home, and Ismet used this time to visit Raymond Poincare and sow a little discord between the Allies...
Perhaps the most important difference this time is the Germans' use of aircraft. Here again, the use of upper Norwegian and lower French bases has proved invaluable. At first the Germans used aircraft principally as eyes, and to sow magnetic mines, but with the development of two long-range fighter-bombers, the Focke-Wulf Zerstorer and Kurier, which can sweep halfway across the Atlantic and back, they began to use planes for destruction as well. The British ogling of Irish bases is not so much for the sake of the Navy as for the R.A.F., which is hampered...
...mechanized Pine Delta plantation. It can't be done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear the stream below as long as the old sow wallows in the spring above." Mr. Comer figured that a minimum 32? an hour in a factory was better for a Georgia boy than 90? a day in the fields...
Died. James Joyce, 58, great, expatriate Irish author (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake}, who called his native land "the old sow that eats her farrow"; after an abdominal operation; in Zurich. Nearly blind, Joyce fled before the Nazis to a village near Vichy, and in December to Zurich, where during World War I he wrote most of his masterpiece Ulysses...
...laughing or lascivious matter. It was like the most respectable Christian marriage, only a great deal more so. None of the women bore it contentedly; and Abijah, on his first night back from a journey, confided to his diary: "I return like the sow to the wallow...