Word: sown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months, until the pressure built up by 16 divisions, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming out of the front lines were so shaken that their "eyes stare without seeing, and fatigue seems to have become a skin disease...
...lure private enterprise into the state on the promise of cheap credit facilities and no strikes. Another Red leader warned that if the central government tried to interfere in Kerala-as it surely will if the Communists try to nationalize foreign enterprise-"the seeds of conflict will be sown, and it may ultimately lead to armed conflict...
Your Feb. 11 article on Negro crime is a timely one, as have been others within the past year. However, it should be made clear that this is one of the self-sown seeds of American destruction. Negro crime will diminish in proportion to the amount of participation afforded the Negro in American affairs. This Negro crime is the price America pays for her racial doubletalk and social hypocrisy...
...seeds of a new French revolution were being sown last week in a small shop near the Arc de Triomphe. There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers. In two or three days, the yellow-fronted shop did as much business as others in the neighborhood handled in a year...
Across desert marked by the charred and twisted remains of Nasser's routed armor, the Yugoslavs churned slowly forward in their shiny, U.S.-built trucks. Because the Israelis had sown the roadside with mines (and neglected to provide any maps), the patrols seldom made better than two or three miles a day. One burly lot of Yugoslav Communists pitched their U.S. Army pup tents beside the road over which Joseph and Mary once fled with the Christ child into Egypt, and played volleyball in the freezing gale. Beside their tents they laid white-pebble signs in the sand: "Zivio...