Word: trough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideal figure for modern hogs features large meaty hams. To produce these delicacies, says Dr. Hubert Heitman Jr., professor of animal husbandry at the University of California at Davis, hogs should get ham-building exercise. He tested his theory by building a stand-up feeding trough with a cleated shelf in front on which the hogs could rest their feet. "It's sort of like a person eating off a mantel," he explains...
...howitzers beside the track blast away at the decelerating sled. Their shells, moving at 1,088 m.p.h., quickly catch up with the target, slam into it, and are stopped with scarcely a scratch by a bale of synthetic rubber. Then the sled itself splashes to a stop in a trough of water...
...Wyeth's peeling walls, the desolate farms, the long passageways of decaying houses, the interiors seen in unusual perspective, could have become merely stagy. But in Wyeth the drama does not get out of hand, for even objects take on human emotion. He can paint a frozen drinking trough and make it seem as forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred. It is not nostalgia...
Winches rattled, halyards sang, and pelting rain beat a steady tattoo against the sails. For more than six miles, the two boats matched swell for swell, trough for trough, until it seemed that they were bound together by an invisible chain...
...upturn. In the first twelve months of recovery from the 1958 recession, more than 1,800,000 new non-farm jobs opened up. Last month, at the same stage of the current recovery, there were only 1,260,000 more non-farm jobs than at the recession's trough...