Word: sows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predetermined time" which the Pentagon of course will not discuss, the mines will deactivate themselves automatically. Meantime, the Soviets may employ some of their surface minesweepers -they have more than 350-to try to clear the ports. If they do so, the U.S. could send in more planes and sow fresh minefields...
...turned around and embraced controls, Meany held out for a tripartite Pay Board with labor representation-and got it. Meany has not attended a board meeting since November, but he has sent his economist Nat Goldfinger, who for quite a while did all he could to block proceedings and sow dissension...
...what remains of the counterculture, pig has become a term of derision reserved for male chauvinists or the fuzz. To Rock Musician James Taylor (TIME cover, March 1), however, pig means only happiness. Taylor's pet sow Mona took first prize (swine division) in the 110th Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair, and later had the ultimate award bestowed upon her: a purple ribbon for being the best animal in the entire fair. Said the elated Taylor: "I'm as proud of her as I can possibly...
...Democratic Republic of Yemen (which was Southern Yemen until a name change six months ago), or was carried to the scene aboard a bigger craft. An unmarked trawler was in the area at the time of the attack. In any case, the guerrillas appeared to be trying to sow trouble among nonradical Arabs. The reference to Aqaba might have been meant to prod Israel into some sort of reprisal against Jordan's only seaport as a way of injuring King Hussein...
...once the battle begins, the centuries are sheared away and the red-and bluecoats are recalled with harrowing accuracy. The serried ranks of French overflow the British positions. The infantry companies form huge squares, firing at an enemy that seems, like dragon's teeth, to sow new fighters as the old ones tumble. And mud undoes both sides. Aerial cameras traverse the horizon, catching cannon and cavalry as they give the battle almost Tolstoyan sweep and power...