Word: agrarian
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Mississippi Squire William Faulkner, who lets neither his 1949 Nobel Prize nor his current Pulitzer Prize (for A Fable) shatter his belief that he is just a simple agrarian with a literary bent, confided to a Manhattan interviewer that he long since missed his true calling. Said he wistfully: "I was born to be a tramp. I was happiest when I had nothing. I had a trench coat then with big pockets. It would carry a pair of socks, a condensed Shakespeare and a bottle of whisky. Then I was happy and I wanted nothing and I had no responsibility...
...hearing a far different story: Chiang's wife was an arrogant creature who slept on silk sheets, while Chiang himself was corrupt and stupid; he stubbornly blocked the path to China's progress, and went out of his way to pick fights with those persecuted heroes of agrarian reform, the Chinese Communists. It was to the mutual disaster of both Chiang and the U.S. that in the critical years following World War II the Communist-line distortions of the second picture were smearily reflected in the smart talk of sophisticates, in the books and the book reviews...
Novelist Louis Bromfield, a deft-penned agrarian reformer who has made a fair amount of money by writing about saving the soil and such to make farming pay, auctioned off his 60-head herd of purebred Holstein dairy cattle, which had browsed at his famed Malabar Farm in northern Ohio. Reason for the sale, at which bids were alarmingly low: dairying didn...
...excrement!" they cried, as the ex-President stalked into the terminal building. There he stripped to his shorts while inspectors carefully examined his grey suit and other belongings, mindful of the fact that Arbenz and his top henchmen drew $1,000,000 in cash from the government-operated Agrarian Bank a few days before he fell.* He watched stonily while marveling examiners counted out his wife's 42 pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still dark when he landed...
Under terms of the new program, further land expropriation will cease until a new Congress enacts a new law, but peasants may get outright title to the plots awarded them under the old law. A new Directorate General of Agrarian Affairs (D.G.A.A.) will clear out "invaders" who squatted on tracts in violation...