Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damn shame the Court had to stir all this up. The Klan was dead till this happened. Nobody talked lynching, and between the Court and the legislature they were even trying to help the niggers some, what we could afford. Now everybody's scared, black and white. They don't talk to you any more. And the shame is that most of those niggers don't want to go to school with white people any more than we do with them. They want good schools, sure. But where the schools are the same, they'll stick together mostly...
Explaining the loophole. Agriculture could muster only a lame statement that it "did not want to regiment the U.S. farmer any more than necessary." As usual, the Agriculture Department closed the barn-door-sized loophole after the Government till had been tapped. In the next crop year, farmers who put 25 acres into the soil bank will not get price supports on more than 75 acres of total crops. But few farmers are seriously worried. Though the great sorghum game is over, farmers are sure that when the time comes there will be plenty of other loopholes to shovel surpluses...
...partners put on a fair imitation of Basilio's brawling style while Sugar put on a fair imitation of a man who knows how to defend himself but sees no point in overexertion. "The roar of the crowd will give him a spark," promised Manager Gainford. "Just wait till Sugar hears the crowd...
...Assistants or Provincials. Insiders believe that the delegates will plump for more power for the Assistants, fearing too much decentralization otherwise. But one powerful bloc-from the U.S. and Britain-favors increasing the Provincials' local powers. Since agenda and voting are secret, the decision may not be known till after the two-month meeting is over...
...July the first of three batches of 4,000 volunteers were at work in the Rif. Rising at 5 a.m., they walked to their work sites and worked through till noon, with only a half-hour break. Lunch over, the volunteers moved on to a different kind of task: classes in the ABCs of civic responsibility. And out of each group, the brightest 80 were sent off to a special camp where the nation's top politicians lectured them on such matters as "the rights of a citizen" and "the democratization of Morocco...