Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dwindling following (about 200). To rally the faithful, Truth Incarnate spoke at Manhattan's Society for Ethical Culture: "A potter can make many, many pots, but many, many pots can't make a potter." The thrust of his pap-psychology? "Life is not complete till you acquire a master." Also, Big Brother knows best...
...backers, Ali apprenticed under Trainer Angelo Dundee, a skilled groomer of fighters. Dundee recalls: "The Louisville group wanted me to train him. I told them to send him down to Miami after Christmas. Twenty minutes later, I get a call telling me Ali wasn't waiting till after Christmas, he was coming right away. They told me he said, 'I don't want to wait for Christmas. I want to fight.' That's how it all started in October...
Maybe my parents will take me out to dinner next year if I promise not to eat with my fingers. Till then, many happy instant replays...
...joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross the square and start on Bedford House, then begin elsewhere, until I had demolished every great house in London; after which I'd unleash myself on the provinces and not quit till I had the razing of all such dwellings from Land's End to Carlisle. And maybe Scot land...
...fact that almost everybody develops perverse pride in abominable weather when it happens to be their own. Abroad, there are the desert tribes that profess to revere their baked domains. Similarly, the New Englander or the Minnesotan boasts about his frozen Februarys and the snow that waits till spring before uncovering the earth again. The Deep Southerner seems proud of those stifling summers that reduce everybody to sweat and distemper. Human responses to weather are, in sum, as variable as the weather itself...