Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lottery Ticket. Until the very moment of his fall, Nikita Khrushchev was noted for similarly compelling powers of persuasion-and political survival. The son of a peasant farmer in the Ukraine, he worked as a shepherd, steam fitter and coal miner. In 1918 he joined the Red Army, quickly becoming a political commissar. As a delegate to the 14th Party Congress in 1925, he skipped breakfast every morning so he could get a front seat near Stalin...
...business," said a farmer whose property straddles the border. "If I had known it was going to come to shooting, I would have told those two boys to drive on another little road." Such sentiments, however, are not common in the region. Irish troops and police were seen-and photographed-near the ambush site, but they did nothing. The I.R.A. congratulated the local villagers for "their courageous resistance to foreign occupation troops...
...Obliging Farmer. During the tests, the temperature of a small sample from a bowl or vase is raised to as high as 900°F., reversing the process and allowing the electrons to return to their lower energy level. As this happens, they emit photons of light, which are measured by a photomultiplier. Because pottery fired long ago contains more excited electrons, it will glow more intensely than items recently manufactured from clay with the same amount of radioactivity. Thus, generally, the greater the light, the greater...
...Oates never got rave reviews until Blacktop. They were followed by more critical praise for his compassionate portrayal of Arch in The Hired Hand, directed by and starring Peter Fonda. Arch is the man in the middle, caught between a deep friendship with a farmer and a newborn love for the farmer's wife. Oates is totally convincing in the role, struggling within himself and weighing each relationship against his own moral code...
...their tiny three-room house. An American-history buff, he would like to direct a series of films about each decade since 1920; they will show the cultural extremes that can exist in the same era. He is currently writing a scenario for the first one, about a Wyoming farmer who rescues from a plane crash an urbane couple modeled after F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...