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Word: crofter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of psychological portraits of war figures, Macmillan thus characterized Mussolini's successor, Marshal Badoglio: "Honest, broadminded, humorous. I should judge of peasant origin." It might stand also as a fair self-portrait of the grandson of a Scots crofter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Churchill's Gillie | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...John Brown was thirty-five, with red-gold hair and beard and a precisely shaven upper lip, handsome in a big, scrubbed, leathery sort of Highland way. His eyes were remarkable, fierce and kindly, gentle and naming: but who among the aristocratic Household noticed the eyes of a kilted crofter, faintly odoriferous no doubt of sweat, who lived among the grooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Black & Brown | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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