Word: sown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention of crickets is complete without a comment on its props. For instance, for the spectators there must always, be oak trees for shade, and deck chairs of a low enough pitch fro a mid-game slumber. For the game itself there must be a perfect oval field, sown with the lushest English turf; and for the players, there must be a bat, preferably a finely-sprung precision instrument autographed by some of the legendary greats of cricket. Also there must be compete game uniform, including immaculate white sneakers, white flannels, white shirt, and cap--each player wearing a distinctively...
...South Africa's highest court. His administration tottered, and considered dangerous alternatives. The restless and politically awakening Negroes scheduled nationwide demonstrations in protests against his policy. The possibility of civil war hovered over South Africa, and a desperate decision faced Daniel François Malan, who had sown the whirlwind...
...find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...
...when safely up and away. In spite of such precautions it will not be a pleasant airport-mate. Once its reactors have run for a while, they will be radioactive even when shut down. If atom-planes ever become common, the fields from which they fly will be thickly sown with radiation alarms and patrolled by safety personnel armed with radiation detectors...
...idea that those universities were ivory towers, Forests of Arden, places where young people went to spend their formative years and develop healthy American ideas. It has seen college life as an existence protected from the harsh facts of economic reality, a place where wild oats could be sown, reaped, trampled on, or uprooted without any effect on society as a whole...