Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily journeys down Athens Street I am confronted by armies of "street pedestrians". And please do not give me the crap that the sidewalks are in decrepit condition. My worn shock absorbers attest to the fact that the streets are just as bad. As an ungrammatical, but mundane, Midwestern farmer once said, "Pigs is pigs." Kevin Crane...
...THIRTY-NINE years old. My home is in Sene Noi Canton, Hhun District, Xieng Khouang Province. I have been a farmer ever since I was able to do the work--for twenty-three years...
...like many other engaged couples round the world, Oliver Boyce, 25, a carpenter, and Bridget Porter, 21, set out to celebrate New Year's Eve together. They never returned to their homes in County Donegal, a few miles from the Northern Ireland border. Around 2 a.m. a local farmer heard about 15 shots and a scream. The couple's bodies were found later side by side in a ditch next to a lonely lane. Boyce had been stabbed in the chest and genitals; he had also been shot once through the head, once through the leg, twice through...
...nature are brought to light only in regions that have been humanized"-that is, transformed by human toil into agricultural lands, gardens and parks. But Dubos warned that for every pound of food produced by these areas there is an enormous expenditure of energy-to make and drive the farmer's tractors, to irrigate the land, to manufacture fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, he took issue with another ecological dogma-that expansion of energy production should be curtailed. The continued well-being of agriculture, he said, is "intimately bound to the development of new sources of energy...
...first installment of Government funds recently sent to communities round the country. But what does that mean, town by town, in terms of the bottom line? Not a whale of a lot, if you are Robert W. Harshaw, mayor of McConnells, S.C. (pop. 200). Harshaw, 69, a dairy farmer, does not remember specifically applying for a federal grant. Still, he received a check for $346. Uncertain as to what to do with such dubious largesse, Harshaw consulted Councilman Sam Crawford, who advised: "Just send the darn thing back." Which is precisely what Harshaw...