Word: agrarian
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...Agrarian Problems. In 1943 Miss Anderson married Orpheus Fisher, an architect who works in Danbury, Conn. Now they live, not far from Danbury, on a beautiful, 105-acre farm, "Marianna." Inside, the handsome, white frame, hillside house has been remodeled by Architect Fisher. He also designed the big, good-looking studio in which Miss Anderson practices...
When not on tour or practicing, Miss Anderson dabbles in farming. She sells grade-A vegetables to the local market, regrets that Marianna, like many farms run by hired help, costs more than it brings in. And there are other problems in the agrarian life. This year, Miss Anderson was much puzzled when the big (but unbred) daughter of her registered Guernsey cow did not give milk. "Heifers have to be freshened before you can milk them," she explains with some astonishment. "Did you know that...
...present trouble in China is not just a struggle between two political parties for power. The Communist movement in my country is not a movement for local self-government. . . . Nor is it a movement for peaceful agrarian reform, for their method of the liquidation of the landlords, including very small landholders, has always been confiscation and expropriation by force. ... It is the challenge of a minority party with an independent army against the authority of the established Government in the hope of gaining political control of the country...
McPhee soon discovered that he was in one of the world's most musical lands. At that time, predominantly agrarian Bali (about half as large as Connecticut) had approximately 8,000 gamelans (native orchestras). More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...
...Communists could count on. "Unreliable" civil officials were being swept out of office with what Dimitroff briskly called "the iron broom." In preparation was a National Education Bill containing a codicil about the political, beliefs of professors and students. Next would come a constitutional assembly from which Agrarian leaders feared they would be excluded...