Word: tilling
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...thousands of civilians, waiting their turn to board a plane, swarmed over the frozen field. At night they huddled together in a drafty, bomb-blasted hangar. In the day they stood in the wan sunlight shaking the chill from their limbs as C-46s droned in monotonously from dawn till dusk. As Communist troops drew nearer and nearer, the panicky ticket holders began to riot. After Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport made its last flight out of Mukden, those who could set out in automobiles and mule carts to run the Communist gauntlet to Yingkow...
...town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies: "Don't be sad; wait till I finish the Institute. There's plenty for an engineer to do here too." This cheers everybody, somewhat...
...mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
...servile leading lady. Despite his mistreatment of her as both wife and actress, she remains loyal to him. After his florid death, she remains loyal to his memory. He had prophesied that she could not act without him, and in duty bound she goes steadily downhill-till about four minutes before the final curtain...
...revolution is taking place in South Africa," warned the Port Elizabeth Saturday Post. "It is not a noisy revolution, and there are no guns or street riots . . . Many thousands of people won't even know that there has been a revolution-till one day they wake up and find that they can never change their government...