Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finding out how diminished the dollar is overseas, urging productivity councils, a flexible investment tax credit, spending cuts. Percy got it all out, and driving back to the Hill with G.O.P. Chairman George Bush, he felt better. So did Congressman Les Arends, who reported on the problems of farmers from his Illinois district. Texan John Tower thumped for the need to increase beef production. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton told the story of how a farmer drove 100 miles to talk to him because he thought Cotton was close to Nixon and could deliver the message. Well...
...James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Eastland, a professional racist, has from his post atop the Senate's powerful Judiciary Committee opposed even the mildest measures for racial justice. He doubles as a gentleman farmer: his huge Mississippi plantations receive the Agriculture Department's highest annual acreage payments...
However, unlike the first freeze, even raw agricultural goods are now price-controlled after their first sale by the farmer to the distributor or wholesaler...
...villain of Shepard's piece is the farmer. The history of civilization, as he reads it, consists of "ten thousand years of eradication of hunters by farmers." He does not hesitate to call this "genocide." Farmers, in his book, are a "fellowship of slaves" leading "the dullest life man has ever lived...
...strangeness of Cornwall Coombe seems to center on the ritualistic way in which the town's corn is planted and harvested. Every seven years a young farmer is chosen to be Harvest Lord, and he in turn chooses a Corn Maiden to preside with him over these rituals. For the seven years of his reign the Harvest Lord is honored with gifts, free labor, respect. After that, well, it's sheer happenstance, of course, but there don't seem to be any former Har vest Lords around, only an extra ordinary number of placid widows...