Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmhouses from the Pennine Hills to the seven streams that flow eastward to the Humber, the herders celebrated the end of a ten-day nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...
...know-how under his hat and the dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...
...Evan Hardy of the University of Saskatchewan did not look like a professor; nor did he look like a revolutionist. Yet as much as any one man can, dealing with a single branch of the farm economy, Dr. Hardy has wrought a revolution in prairie agriculture. It began 15 years ago when he served as a judge in plowing matches. Then & there he decided that plowing matches were good fun, but a waste of farmers' time. What difference did it make how fast and straight a furrow could be plowed? The important thing was the productivity of the furrow...
Other changes wrought last week...
...story has been told many times, and more dramatically, but seldom with more balanced compassion or gentler insight. The Bulwark's closing chapters, in which Solon Barnes realizes what his good intentions have wrought, and is battered into a simpler, humbler kind of religious understanding, are of a searching, level, melancholy beauty which cannot be expected of any living American writer...