Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million drive to upgrade Pitt, promoting a $250 million redevelopment of the school's Oakland neighborhood, serving as chairman of S.C.M. Corp. (formerly Smith Corona Mar-chant), and heading Studebaker Corp.'s Executive Committee: "Maybe I do-but don't call me down on it till I drop one." By last week it was clear that Litchfield had finally fumbled a big one: Pitt...
...best of the mustangs were broken to the bridle by several established procedures. The Mexican method was subtle but brutal: the horse was slowly starved and beaten into docility. The American method was stupid but decent: a man jumped on the horse's back and rode him till the man was thrown or the bronco was busted. The Indian method was noble and humane: immobilized by ropes, the horse was approached by his master, who spoke to him softly in "horse talk," stroked his body until every part of it had been touched and every fear assuaged, then mounted...
...GIVE TO ISRAEL TILL IT HURTS." Israel is the great new fact of Jewish existence. Since 1948, American Jews have poured about a billion and a half dollars into the new state, although only a few thousand have answered ex-Premier Ben-Gurion's call to become Israeli citizens. Israelis are sometimes skeptical of such vicarious participation in their pioneering and have been known to call their American brethren "alimony Jews"-willing to pay but not to live with it. The emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige...
Parker's Back, a grotesque but mystically radiant story of salvation, describes what happens to a loose-living redneck who can't seem to get right with his God-fearing wife. The dang-fool frets till he can't drive straight, crashes his tractor into a tree, rises up inspired and rushes off to the tattoo parlor, where a life-size head of Christ is inscribed in the middle of his back...
...thought Liston had slipped on a banana peel, or maybe Old Jersey Joe is still a little punch-drunk from the Marciano fight. At any rate, Liston was required to stay down for an eight count. He got up before he was counted out--and naturally he would wait till the last second to conserve his strength...