Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Siberian dwarf hamster; fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction of making a contribution to science -- in this case, collecting data about an animal that...
...kept thinking: it's not over till its over," Cist said...
...come by the noise of other prisoners. A guard opened our cell door. We lurched out, joining the other prisoners waiting to use the single sink. After washing, we were led back to our cell. "Do we get any food now?" I asked Paul. He shook his head. "Not till lunch". I asked how long he thought it would be till we went to trial. "I dunno. A day, six months...". I saw Harvard disappearing over the horizon; my plane was due to leave the following week. The day passed. We tore up a newspaper and made some cards...
...freezing Panama's bank accounts in the U.S. But at year's end the Bush Administration had to throw that process into reverse, when the U.S.-installed administration of President Guillermo Endara was due to pay out $50 million in government salaries and had no money in the till...