Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governments of both nations are so constituted that they can continue to prosper only in an atmosphere of suspicion and nationalistic club waving. The type of threat which they present is one which by now should be well understood by our government. Yet, these unregenerated banditti proceed to sow the seeds of war, unmolested...
...main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan is tied to the provision that only British firms which had worked...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Park, Alexander Fell Whitney, boss of the Railroad Trainmen and the man whom the President had roasted to a turn, rose to his feet and cried: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." All around him the crowd-drummed up by the militant National Maritime Union-cheered...
Every winter the Kuesters carry over as breeders about 40 of .the likeliest looking gilts (young females) and sows. Some are at Dale's, more than half at Gus's. In early April, at evening feeding, the Kuesters begin to sidle up to these elite pigs and delicately strip their swelling teats. If a drop of milk shows, the sow will probably farrow during the night. So she is rushed into the farrowing barn, which, jauntily topped by a weather vane in the form of a pig, has pens for 16 expectant gilts and sows...
...beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter...