Word: sown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty for the Christmastide. Said a member of Hammarskjold's staff: "All these people clearly want to be identified with the U.N. and to play their part in this unique operation. One after another said: 'This is an army of peace.' And, by God, it has sown the seed of peace in their minds-even among newcomers...
...beauty, and Author Troyat has enough sympathetic characters to carry him through at least a dozen more novels. Troyat, in this volume, is writing of Frenchmen who were still supremely confident of the future; reading it is a little like watching an unsuspecting man walk into a pleasant field sown with land mines...
...months, until the pressure built up by 16 divisions, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming out of the front lines were so shaken that their "eyes stare without seeing, and fatigue seems to have become a skin disease...
...lure private enterprise into the state on the promise of cheap credit facilities and no strikes. Another Red leader warned that if the central government tried to interfere in Kerala-as it surely will if the Communists try to nationalize foreign enterprise-"the seeds of conflict will be sown, and it may ultimately lead to armed conflict...
Your Feb. 11 article on Negro crime is a timely one, as have been others within the past year. However, it should be made clear that this is one of the self-sown seeds of American destruction. Negro crime will diminish in proportion to the amount of participation afforded the Negro in American affairs. This Negro crime is the price America pays for her racial doubletalk and social hypocrisy...