Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment last week at a weed-grown point of their common border, Israelis and Jordanians pursued not war but justice. At issue was the identification of two scraggy black cows that had been stolen from a Jordanian Arab last February, taken into Israel and sold. The thief had been arrested by the Jordan police. After a complaint transmitted to Israel by the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, Israeli police found the stolen cows in a local barn and promptly arrested two Israeli Arabs for receiving stolen property. To give them a fair trial, the property had first to be identified...
Garden Weeder. A new weed killer developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. eliminates hand hoeing in vegetable patches. "Vegadex" destroys annual grasses and broad-leaf weeds without damaging crops, has been found safe for everything from corn to garden beets. Chemical may also be used safely in some tree and plant nurseries where hand weeding costs run as high as $100 per acre annually. Price per gallon...
Architect Harry Weese was in trouble. He had just arrived in Accra, the palm-fringed capital of West Africa's Gold Coast, and what had seemed a minor problem back in his Chicago office suddenly began growing like a tropical weed. Young (41), function-minded Architect Weese had been commissioned by the State Department, on a low budget of $300,000, to design an embassy and staff residences in hot, humid Accra, with the stipulation that his design must harmonize with the indigenous architectural tradition. But apart from thatch or corrugated iron and adobe, he found that there...
Ciardi dripped scorn on the internal structure of Anne Lindbergh's poetry, railed at the placing of commas and her use of grammar ("Am I to assume that Mrs. Lindbergh is actually illiterate?''). A line that went "Down at my feet/ a weed has pressed/ its scarlet knife/ against my breast" Ciardi scoffed at as "the neatest trick of the literary season...
...Washington the more conservative Corcoran jury, made up of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr., Metropolitan Museum Curator of Paintings Theodore Rousseau Jr. and Philadelphia Museum Painting Curator Henry Clifford, took three days to weed through 1,643 submitted paintings. Then they underlined by their choices the two trends they felt most evident in the heavily abstract field: i) a move toward more recognizable subject matter, and 2) a surprising strength in oldtime geometric abstractions. Loren Maclver's softly luminous The Street (see next spread), which carried off first honors, was called by one juror "very, very sensitive...