Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is known about child development. A classroom structured around a child's needs and desires will be a happier and more productive place than one planned for someone else's purposes. A fourth grade class's improvisation of animals escaped from a barnyard and recaptured by a farmer and his family evoked my memories of long rows of very hard desks, very soft pencils, and very long sentences...
While a secretary sprayed the room with a lemon-scented aerosol bomb, police and firemen ejected the intruders. Outside the palace, a Liège farmer, who felt that the ministers had not been sufficiently cowed, lamented: "My only regret is that we didn't bring along a bull...
...That feeling stirred up anger, and the unjustified anger opened the door to guilt. Hence the need for restitution. "Ford's fixation on the car," says Author Jardim, "can mean only that it had come to symbolize for him a means of expiation. The Model T was the farmer's car, durable, bereft of frills, and cheap." And the farmer for whom it was built was in reality the elder Ford, whose heavy labors his son had observed from childhood. "To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been...
...crack. Aborigines are Australia's forgotten people, living mainly in shanty settlements at the edge of inland and outback towns. Still, there was no denying Evonne. She began training with the Barellan tennis club when she was six. Four years later the club president, a retired local farmer named Bill Kurtzmann, entered her in a tournament in nearby Naranndera. It turned out that there was no youth division, so the ten-year-old girl proceeded directly to win the women's singles. A few more like that and she caught the eye of Vic Edwards, one of Australia...
Holes in the Ceiling. As usual, Congress did not forget the farmers. The lawmakers approved a three-year price-support law for wool, wheat, feed grains and cotton that will cost taxpayers just about what farm support costs them now -approximately $3.8 billion annually. For the first time Congress placed a limit, $55,000, on the amount of subsidy that a farmer may receive per crop. But that ceiling affects only about 1,100 of the nation's 3,000,000 farmers -among them, Senator James O. Eastland, who collected $146,792 during 1969 for his cotton plantation...