Word: thresh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvest Army. Already the wide north ward sweep of the harvest has begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...
...collegians piled into farmers' trucks. A facultywoman, a Ph.D., volunteered to drive one. Football squads turned out en masse. Canceled were football games and homecoming celebrations. In the fields, 4,000 of the State's collegians were joined by thousands of high-school youngsters, to thresh wheat, pick potatoes, top beets, feed the student army in farm kitchens. Cried a teachers' college president: "The finest community spirit I have ever seen displayed by any student body anywhere...
...profane and mundane world and the world of the supernatural and religious. The fenodyree (Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which in the 2nd Century visited Fergus MacLeite, King of Ulster, are believed to be the ancestors of Swift's Lilliputians...
...effort to reopen fortnight ago ended in tear-gas attacks, smashed windows, smashed cars, and the ignominious rout of Wisconsin's Governor Julius ("the Just") Heil, who failed as a mediator. The agreement engineered by the Mediation Board provided for a referee with absolute powers to thresh out management-labor relations, protect "union security," nub of the long dispute...
...perhaps best prepared to take it. As the late Novelist D. H. Lawrence's heroine, Lady Chatterly, discovered in the Midlands: "This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts. . . . There was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hobnailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious." But if people are strong, factories are still vulnerable to high explosive...