Word: sown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeds of the trouble were sown, recklessly, in the 1970s. That was a decade of high prosperity in the croplands. Worldwide demand for U.S. grain and fiber boomed. The Government advised farmers to plant fence to fence, and growers happily complied. They could sell all they raised at prices often well above the federal support levels...
...long trip north did have some benefits. When Dartmouth hits sown tomorrow might for. Harvard's Ivy League opener, the Big Green will sport a defense similar to that employed by Maine...
...outright enemy from which any and all secrets must be prudently guarded. It is easy to forget that the trial took place only after America and Russia were wartime allies--so that it was in the Rosenberg case itself that many of the seeds of the Cold War were sown...
...winner would certainly be Julian Schnabel, 30. The 1981-82 art season drenched him in publicity: not accidentally, since his main patron is Charle Saatchi, the English advertising man who also takes care of the public image of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. The art world was diligently sown with rumors that his paintings were selling for $30,000, $50,000 or $75,000, though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi, and the press showed its usual gullibility about the steep differences between publicity price, asking price...
...tried to figure out where the seeds of my antmostly were sown and I've decided that it was in RFK Stadium in Washington. D. C., where the Washington Senators used to play Filled with fatherly ambition, my father once took my older sister and me to a Senators game there, where he hoped to share some of his enthusiasm with...