Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia generations to break away from stifling old customs and catch up with technology's real demands and opportunities. "But Asia today is impatient; she is not in a mood to wait. [Asia] is a field that is almost asking for an enemy to come by night and sow tares in it. The enemy has, of course, turned...
...effort of social reformers to supply intellectual as well as material luxuries to the poor fails for want of roots in primary human nature ... To dump into the poor man's mind the products of a decadent aristocratic culture will perhaps accelerate their decomposition, but it will not sow the seed of anything better...
...Irish in particular let their living habits fall to a standard as low as that of rooting pigs. The great blow fell in Ireland in 1845 when a dismal blight turned the entire potato crop to dust almost overnight, killing a million Irishmen and sending a million more to sow in the U.S. "The seeds of Anglophobia which, after 100 years, is still alive...
Yechon was deserted save for enemy dead in the streets and a few snipers on housetops. A razorback sow and six little pigs scurried across the street and into the quarters of the Korean Young Men's Association. The G.I.s were unimpressed with their prize. "Let's get out of here and move north," said one. Another clearly and carefully chalked a legend on a wall. It read: "Kilroy is back...
...Irving Langmuir, high priest of scientific rainmaking, sounded a solemn warning last week: those who sow too many rainstorms may reap nothing but droughts. Speaking at the School of Mines in drought-threatened New Mexico, Langmuir denounced the commercial rainmakers, many of them woefully ignorant of the art, who are seeding the atmosphere with silver iodide throughout the dry Southwest. "Some of them," he said, "are using hundreds of thousands of times too much. No more than one milligram [.000035 oz] of silver iodide should be used for every cubic mile...