Word: sown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perry Mason show been castrated? The quality of television declines every year. The "vast wasteland" former FCC chairman Newton Minow described in 1961 has by now been sown with salt. In 1962, The Defenders aired a show dealing with abortion. The advertisers complained, but public letters to CBS were overwhelmingly in favor of the show's sensitive consideration of the problem. Eleven years later, all the dramatic series of the early 60s are gone, and the controversy is over a stupid show called Maude...
...year. Even if the farmers do hit the Government target on acreage, it is doubtful that they will get a big enough crop to fulfill Administration estimates. Seeds put in the ground late tend to give thinner yields, and about 30% of the corn this year will have been sown after the optimum planting period, which ends, depending on the region, between...
...parties are the essence of the Mengers technique, fertile fields to be sown with actors, writers and directors and plowed for possible deals. "On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say that entertaining has contributed 5 to my success. It is harder for someone to screw you if they've had dinner at your house...
...heart was so very sad. The place where I used to play on the mountain and the place where I used to bring the cattle and buffalo in the evening to shit them up had become so many bomb craters. And I couldn't anymore because they had been sown with antipersonnel bombs some hadn't vet exploited. Sometimes an animal would kick one and it would blow up... But my father felt for his animals. He slept in the village and tried to plow early in the morning. He was afraid we would all die of starvation...
...SPRING'S NADIR came at the May 22 march on the Pentagon. Called by an emergency coalition of major national antiwar groups immediately after the mines were sown, the action was seen as an attempt to duplicate the now-legendary 1967 march on the mammoth military headquarters. Even in the days immediately preceding the action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables quarreled divisively. After sparing for several hours with riot-equipped...