Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Ohio's author-farmer Louis Bromfield called Kentucky bluegrass a "noxious weed," Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked...
...condition. When the tractors successfully cleared a 7,000-acre tract of kans, the Indian government swung a $10 million loan from the World Bank, bought 240 more U.S. tractors, equipped them with specially designed root-cutting plows. Peasants who saw others' fields freed of the weed begged to have their own plowed, and draped the tractors with blossoms...
Five-year-old John Muir College* at Pasadena (enrollment: 2,000) has no more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...
Circles & Squares. The world is like a vast prolific garden. Every form of life, flower and weed, sprouts up in "blind exuberance." This he calls the Generative
...Advocate. "The House at the Cascades," by Adrienne Rich, is as clean, tight, and refreshing as Miss Rich's previous work. She writes of a house going to ruin, and does so with remarkable unpretentiousness: "The tamest shrub remembered anarchy, and joined in appetite with the demagogue weed . . ." The other, "Digging for China," by Richard Wilbur, is simple and evocative; Wilbur's clarity should inspire some of the Advocate's more obscure writers to intense self-examination...