Word: untrodden
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...otherwise known as the dynamite or blaster, is that concave instrument for delving in golf's farflung hinterlands. Ever since Gene Sarazen built the first one during the winter of 1932 in a Florida machine shop, the wedge has been a godsend for golfers extricating themselves from places previously untrodden by man (or woman...
...seemed just the time for such painting. Wordsworth was hymning the virtues of Lucy's untrodden ways, Rousseau hailed the natural man, Thomas Gray's ploughman had plodded his weary wav homeward, and William Blake deplored the "dark satanic mills" that despoiled England's green and pleasant land. But most of Constable's contemporaries were concerned, as Constable often complained, with "the elevated and noble walks of art, i.e., preferring the shaggy posterior of a satyr to the moral feeling of landscape...
Describing important convictions in the administration's urban policy, he said, "The small town atmosphere has appeared from our major cities and cannot be reclaimed. Yet somehow the persists that city planners can recapture the virtues of the past with green and high rise apartments in the of untrodden grass...
...shot gamble, but with the fervor and thoroughness of a born politico, Frederika set to work canvassing her constituents and winning them over to her side. During the first years of Paul's reign, scarcely a square mile in all the 51,000 that formed Greece was left untrodden by either the King, the Queen or the royal couple together. They rode in jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short...
...worthy but little-known books, after months of thumbing along untrodden ways, were last fortnight picked up by a comfortable sedan-the Pulitzer award for biography and history-and given a lift toward public attention...