Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo, Lumumba buzzed back to New York. On his schedule were nothing but a trip to Macy's, the purchase of some English language records and a flight for home, presumably to try to solve some of the problems he has just been talking about up till...
...arrive for work and the last to leave. At 4:30 one morning in 1949, patrolling an emergency meeting of the territorial legislature, gearing to cover an impending dock strike. Editor Allen took pity on the sole surviving staffer and chauffeured him home. "Now, don't come in till 6:30," he said indulgently-then drove briskly back to work...
Nothing new in sight till September. In the meantime, the fittest shows survive both heat and familiarity. Among the musicals still leg-kicking: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello!, a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic...
...khaki farmers go, Jagjit must be accounted progressive. In all the 600,000 villages of India, only i% of the farmers till their land with anything more up to date than a metal-tipped stick. There are only 34,000 tractors in the whole country. But even if tractors were available in any quantity, most farmers' plots are too tiny to justify their use. The government has persuaded only a few to band together in cooperatives. For an Indian feels deeply attached to his own land and hates the idea of working on someone else's; nor does...
...syllable line the lament of Andromache over the body of Hector. At graveside, the chief mourner's voice becomes a howl of hysteria ("Oh, my warrior! The arch and pillar of our house!"), her hair tumbles in disorder, and she tears at her cheeks with her fingernails till they are crisscrossed with red gashes and running with tears and blood. In the mesmeric half-trance of the dirge, the singer has been known to drift far out and lament high taxes, the price of salt, the need for roads, and the Bulgarian frontier-all in faultless couplets. Sans couplets...