Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sow. ... In Harlem, Mrs. A. D. Babb had two signs in her window: 1) Midwife; 2) Petite Hand Work...
...prize sheep. Boy & girl sing at each other enthusiastically, retire to their respective corners of Russia eager for a return bout next summer. In dead of winter, in the foggy mountain rains, the shepherd rescues three lost ladylike ewes from three wolves; his sweetheart delivers her favorite sow of 19 pigs. When not engaged in animal husbandry, the lovers think about each other, with music. Distance and language differences lead to love complications. But everything is straightened out in the end (with the help of a lively score...
Spring. In Priest River, Idaho, Farmer J. C. Thomas swore that he saw a bear pick up his 300-lb. brood sow, jump the 4-ft. hog lot fence, and dash off with her into the hills...
...Harding quotes the volume Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry for a description of this curious scion of a wild boar and a native highland sow. The pig was "a tall, loose species, with legs of an unusual length, with no flesh, short ears, as if they had been cropped, and with long faces of a highly intellectual cast. They were also of such activity -that few greyhounds could clear a ditch or cross a field with more agility or speed. Their backs formed a rainbow arch, capable of being contracted or extended to an inconceivable degree...
General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...