Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they haven't exactly been tough up till...
...able to defend his program against the generally uncritical questions of reporters. The President spun off his statistics and conservation "principles" with assurance. He stoutly defended his stand-by gasoline tax, as he must at so early a moment in a long debate, declaring: "I will fight for it till the last vote in Congress." Notably, he held out the possibility of gasoline rationing as "a viable alternative" if his program fell short of its goals. He pointed out that he had the power to impose rationing without congressional approval by declaring a national emergency...
...suburbanites is to form associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open. There is not much in the way of refrigeration except for the snowbanks, and then the dogs must be fought...
...Wait till next year' was the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Our approach has to be a little bit more urgent. But we're getting there." He whispered tightly, "We'll surprise them." He left the ball park almost reluctantly, clearly impatient for the start of tomorrow's flyballs and line drives, celebrations and circuses...
...Shells. Thus encouraged, the group moved from an initial prosy, collective poem to individual efforts inspired by music ("The doctor almost gave me up/ Till I heard that music/ Then I started to move") and touched objects ("This powder puff makes me think of your hair"). For one workshop, Koch and Farrell brought sea shells, seaweed and bags of sand to elicit sea poems ("I, the ocean/ So huge/ So powerful/ So rich"). Says Koch of his props: "The residents lived in such a deprived environment that if you brought in anything, they'd be inspired." By the final...