Word: tilling
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...three sculptures, along with a gracefully sprawling nude called Eve, had moved from owner to owner till they came to rest at a side show at Blackpool, a more sedate version of Coney Island, full of slot machines, peep shows and freaks. The Epsteins used to draw up to $4,000 a week, but when receipts fell off, the owner decided to sell...
...labor relations deteriorated. The company became notorious for the famed Ludlow Massacre of 1914, in which 33 men, women and children were shot down by the state militia, most of them C.F. & I.-employed guards. Time and again the Rockefellers tried to sell their old property, but not till Charles Allen came along could they make a deal...
They gave a couple of cheers that start: "H-A-R with a V" and sang some songs about telling a Harvard man a mile away. And soon they all agreed, WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR...
...Portuguese peasants I walked barefoot till I was seven," he declares with a slight accent. "At 15 we came to the United Sates. Here we found more than a chance to get ahead. Even though many were uninterested in politics, still there was the freedom (and he said this word with unusual feeling and meaning) that made this nation great and dynamic...
...little shocked when he answers, "All right." ¶ Filo has five children, and in one day will be 34. "I have gotten old, haven't I?" she asks her brother. "Look at the wrinkles in my face. Now all that's left is to wait till the children grow up, get older and older, and then die. Like Mamma, poor dear...