Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pudgy man who showed off a snapshot of his daughter in return for a look at my ID taught economics, and Janev's field was philosophy, but they had all been recruited for manual labor in one of Tito's work brigades. Janev flipped through an envelope of photographs till he found a group portrait for me to remember them...
...rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting...
...since March, Farenthold, 49, has made this fall's entering class the largest in six years, but still sees recruitment as her biggest problem. Farenthold, a Vassar alumna with a University of Texas law degree, never gave "a minute's thought to being a college president" till she went to speak at Wells and was subsequently offered the post. Directed to cut costs without touching faculty salaries or positions, she preaches "the ethics of less." She has moved out of the oak-paneled president's office, with its marble fireplace, to more modest digs, where she plans...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON, 56, faded. The Commerce Secretary has held a record four Cabinet posts and yearned to be Vice President. Though he remained on various lists till near the end, his liberal image and stodgy stump style foredoomed him. Richardson missed a White House call notifying him that he had been bypassed and, as he tried to return the call, learned from a passer-by that Dole had been chosen. If Ford is elected, Richardson could become Secretary of State, but he concedes that "I may be looking for a job in November." The opposition that he evokes from...
...large poster in Basse-Terre announces that the Tivoli Cinema is showing Hell Is Empty. Yet in the town of Saint-Claude, halfway up the slopes, there remains one elderly couple that refuses to leave. Says Dorome Cherize, 61, as she munches on a mango: "I stay here till I die. If the mountain blows, the country disappears. I stay here...