Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bunk compartment I was sharing with Yuri Shchekochikhin, a commentator from the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta. So, you are heading off into the wilds of Russia? See for yourself how far the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have gone. An image came to mind of perestroika as a stalled tractor, sinking ever deeper into the rich black earth of the Tambov region. It was a common Moscow view, as if nothing new could ever come out of the provinces...
...single-warhead Midgetman (a misnomer for a missile weighing 37,000 lbs.) would sidestep the vulnerability problem by being deployed on hardened, tractor-drawn launchers. In times of crisis, the launchers could be dispersed over thousands of square miles on and off military reservations. But while military planners consider the Midgetman more survivable in a surprise attack than the MX, it is much more expensive: $39 billion for 500 missiles carrying 500 warheads...
Malard has a fan-cooled house, and his big White tractor has an air- conditioned cab. The shelter belts of Chinese elms and Russian olive trees that he planted between fields have endured, and retard the dust and wind over the 1,200 acres he and his son farm. Malard's hunch is that the improved farming practices, the big dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the Missouri, farm ponds and all the other modern techniques will prevent the terrible devastation and suffering of the 1930s...
...giving rice to the starving natives. Mallory replies, "One problem is that the people here don't eat rice . . . The second is that there aren't any people." Sanger, whose career is on the skids, responds glumly, "Even my disaster area is a disaster." Then something amazing occurs. A tractor under Mallory's direction tips over the huge stump of an old oak tree, and water begins to bubble up from the cavity below. First a trickle, then a stream. Soon a broad brown current several hundred yards wide spreads itself north and south. Knowing a dramatic photo opportunity when...
...experimental" pieces of the wail-and-swoop school that, if expressed orthographically, would look like ! cents* ! and to which the audience reaction is generally zzzzzzz, and some younger Soviet composers have flirted with newer techniques, such as minimalism. But most of the music heard last week mines the same tractor-factory-and-singing-peasant vein that the Soviets have been exploring for the past 40 years...