Word: sown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before man had scientific facts to back his convictions, he was confident about the existence of extraterrestrial life. "To consider the earth as the only populated world in infinite space," said the 4th century B.C. Epicurean Philosopher Metrodoros, "is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow...
...seeds of Independent Pinkney's defeat were sown at the same time Stokes was rejoicing at Carney's victory. Immediately after the primary, Stokes elatedly proclaimed that the way was now cleared for a race between "two gentlemen." And in words that would come back to haunt him, he added, "I am discounting the man who raised our real estate taxes, Mr. Perk." For despite every effort to switch black votes back to Pinkney, including two letters and another recorded message from the Mayor, the inroads that Carney had made in the black community could not be counteracted. Stokes badly...
...girl grew older, and as she began to spend more time in Venice with her real parents, "Mamile and Tattile," the seeds of cultural and political ambivalence were sown...
...fear-fear of black men, fear of crime, fear of disorder, fear even of differences-that allows repression to flourish, those who succumb to their fears are as responsible as those who make political use of them. And in the end both will suffer equally. 'For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.'" Richard Harris, it seems, would add to this list of fears men's fears of making decisions. For the Senate, the Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision...
...also opened new lines of communication within universities. For the first time in years, students, faculty and administrators agreed on a major issue. Formalized by new devices like campus ombudsmen and rumor-control centers, the new intimacy strengthened many an institution. LAW-AND-ORDER. The bombers and arsonists have sown genuine fear among students, who generally despise violence as much as anyone else. At the same time, most campuses have promulgated tough rules against unpeaceful dissenters. They have beefed up their security forces and equipped them with sophisticated electronic equipment to frustrate intruders and identify the hitherto anonymous rock thrower...