Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the gut understanding of a friend who's been with them since they were "barnstorming around the northern country in a busted-up Volkswagen," as he recalls it, Matson has put Pilobolus on paper as no words can. Though Matson describes himself as "a farmer and a writer," he has the eye of a cinematographer--and like his subjects, evidently, the energy of an athlete. "When I'm photographing Pilobolus, I'm down on the floor or flipping, too--it's almost like a sport," he says...
Meanwhile, many farmers share the opinion of one weather-grizzled Georgia farmer: "Let's don't let them get by with buying our land, but don't stop it yet, not until I can sell mine." Adds William Wisenbaker, who farms several hundred acre near Lake Park, Ga.: "If any of them fellas with long robes come around, I'm gonna give them a wide berth. That is, unless they're carrying so much money I can't turn them down...
Judge Robert Ward noted that there were significant similarities between the two books. In The African, for example, Courlander described the hunter: "He must hear what the farmer cannot hear. He must smell what others cannot smell ... his eyes must pierce the darkness." In Roots, Haley wrote: "He must hear what others cannot, smell what others cannot. He must see through the darkness." Courlander cited 81 such passages. Haley's defense: during the years he wrote Roots, students and others who listened to his lectures often handed him notes and research without citing the sources...
...programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self-rule through a village council set up by Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's son Zakriya can read and write (unlike his father) because the government sent four teachers to Lashkar-Abad. The Shah, says the farmer, is "khehlee khoob " (very good...
...miles away. But on the other side of the world Saigon was falling. Among the thousands of refugees aboard the final military flights in April 1975 were hundreds of doctors, bound first for American bases in the Far East, then for U.S. camps. Bill Johnson, a wealthy farmer and president of Wilmot's doctorless Medical Center Board, saw an opportunity. In May 1975 he went to Fort Chaffee, Ark., on a recruiting mission. There he eagerly agreed to sponsor Dr. Thieu Bui and Dr. Ton That De, both former South Vietnamese army officers...