Word: sown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "A master among astronomers ... he has explored the 'star-sown voids of space' the confines of the mind and the reaches of the spirit." G. Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church...
Christendom is sown with the bones of saints-chips and splinters, shins and fingers, skulls and full skeletons-encased in rich reliquaries and venerated by the faithful. The delicate question of authenticity often rests only on pious tradition; one bone looks much like another, and who can say for sure...
...been guardian rather than daring reformer, diplomat and preacher rather than crusader. He has (in his own phrase) "sown among ruins." He has shown his time that Stalin's famous question was not so much cynical as naive, and that anyone who perceives power only in divisions, or in bread and machines, sees the world about as realistically as a pre-Copernican astronomer...
Most of the Australian experiments backed by CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) have been done with Dry Ice sown from airplanes. Single clouds were seeded and the results watched by radar, which shows the formation of rain inside the cloud. A cloud-seeding was counted as successful only if rain came from the seeded cloud but not from adjacent clouds that were not seeded. When a cloud's temperature was below 19° F., the trick worked every time. Individual clouds dropped as much as ½ in. of rain that would not have fallen naturally...
...grey face of the Mexican countryside, tilled for more than a thousand years by pointed sticks, changes are visible. South of the Rio Grande near Matamoros grow great fields of cotton, where only mesquite flourished 15 years ago. In booming Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops of corn and beans. Since...