Word: sown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...search for the source of America's educational woes never flags. This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that Universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...
...threat to prosecute the rioters. The segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer and nearer to his goal of a third term, nobody seriously tried to put Little Rock back together again...
Good Old Days. The 1,500,000 who obeyed the back-Frondizi order were the remnants of the massive Peronista labor movement. Perón built the movement by pampering the workers with inflationary wage boosts, and was overthrown before they reaped the economic ruin he had sown. Now pinched by Aramburu's austere battle to rebuild the damaged economy, the workers fondly recall the good old days, never dream of blaming Perón for the mess he left behind...
...line is the specialty of a 1,600-man F.L.N. commando led by a onetime laborer called "Colonel" Laskri Amara, who prowls the strip between the fence and the Tunisian border. Amara's men operate with insulated wire cutters, drive cattle in to set off the land mines sown along the line and frequently draw French troops away from a genuine breakthrough by first feinting an attack on the fence in a totally different location. By these means-and the simple expedient of sending many convoys south of Tebessa where the Morice line ends-the F.L.N., the French estimate...
...father. Gradually Theron learns or senses nearly everything that has poisoned the lives of his parents, and Home from the Hill becomes a sad record of innocent youth brutally awakened to the fears, hatreds and frustrations of adult life. Novelist Humphrey is honest: the seeds of tragedy having been sown early, the crop is tragic throughout. The Hunnicutt story ends in disaster and violence...