Only a few hundred will leave with medals, which means — despite all those lyrical odes to the Olympic spirit — that there is much more disappointment on the tracks, mats and well-tended fields of these Games than delight.
If you have a choice, choose clean, well-tended fields for your pea-picking expedition.
Maybe that's part of the joy here, and part of the power of these well-tended fields.
The decline in errors has a substantial list of contributing factors, including superior equipment, better-tended fields and more conservative official scorers.
In their lower sections they widen, and the valley floors are intensively cultivated, most of the lower slopes either in meadows or in well-tended fields.
For the first few miles the road from the highway is paved, passing through a prosperous district with solid houses and well-tended fields.
He pulled into Pineview Cemetery, a meticulously tended slope of headstones and bright bouquets.
During the decades of scant contact with foreign colleagues, Russian mathematicians, for political reasons that Borjas and Doran explain, concentrated on certain fields that tended to get much less attention in the West.
The drill's final resting place: 14 stories beneath the well-tended sidewalks of Park Avenue.
Today the hill is covered with lawns, shrubbery and well-tended beds of seasonal flowers.
Today, Waterford Wood, a well-tended subdivision of expensive homes, envelops Mr. Jamelske's ramshackle house.
