Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence in the use of recently bought antiquities to describe past civilizations. In particular, the forgeries could lead to distrust of current archaeological concepts about ancient Anatolian culture. The Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia, rather than Mesopotamia...
...personnel, Richardson wisely retained Under Secretary John Veneman, Finch's best appointment, a health and welfare expert enjoying considerable respect on Capitol Hill. Otherwise, Richardson has transformed the departmental hierarchy. With the departure of James Farmer, the only black in the department's upper reaches, and outspoken Education Commissioner James Allen Jr., HEW has lost important symbols of social passion. But two of his appointees, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Laurence Lynn Jr. and the education commissioner, Sidney Marland Jr., have brought a new level of expertise and technocratic brilliance...
...stared at his small vegetable garden one day last fall, a Collinsville, Okla., welder and farmer named Charles Baker came to the conclusion that his environment was threatened. The reason was 3 ft. underground: a gas pipeline that Baker was convinced would explode like a "time bomb" and maim his family. In four months Baker ran up $1,000 in telephone bills enlisting support from public officials around the U.S. Armed with photographs and witnesses, he then went to the Oklahoma corporation commission, a state agency that regulates pipelines. His charge: the pipeline, part of a $9 million, 144-mile...
...woolen Norfolk jacket until his friend's elder sister Marian (Julie Christie) volunteers to take him into town and buy him more suitable clothes. She is fond of the boy, but she is careful to cultivate him too. Soon he is carrying messages to her lover, a Laurentian farmer named Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), and bearing back replies...
...takes Long Boy a while to realize just how gifted his precocious partner is. Cool and resourceful, she "smells out money like a honey bee smells out woodbine." Eventually he expands their operations. "Let's go ramify a big, fat farmer," he cries; and playing more on human greed than gullibility, he devises imaginative new swindles that net thousands. It takes nerve, but Addie thrives on "that crawly, goose-bumpy feeling I always got before we did business...