Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture was decidedly well timed. Palmer's opponent, Francis ("Frenchy") LaBrosse, though a six-year incumbent, was suffering from the wounds of a feud with his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Thus, in a traditionally Liberal * district, Palmer positioned himself as an independent, free of party encumbrances. In what seemed an innocent enough proposition at the time, he promised to line up with whichever party gained control of the senate. The appeal worked, and Palmer became the first nonLiberal senator ever elected in his district. It was pure Cinderella, with Palmer as the star. Then some very funny things...
...kitchen; in Las Vegas (his wife found his body in their home about a week after his death). "Ever since I was born, I've been fighting for my life," Liston used to say. Much of it was out of the ring. Son of an Arkansas cotton farmer, Liston in his late teens was serving a five-year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from...
...Northeastern freshman coach called me and said he was going to win the meet," said Harvard freshman track coach Pappy Hunt yesterday in the bubble. He gazed onto the track at the runners going by and continued, "I'm like that old Missouri farmer who says 'Show...
Coldly Furious. The son of a South Carolina dirt farmer, Rivers was eight when his father died, and he knew poverty in his childhood. Rivers and his wife Margaret, parents of a son and two daughters, lived simply, maintaining a small brick house in McLean, Va., and a modest home in Charleston. For all his love of arms, Rivers never served in uniform. As he admitted, "I don't know squads-left from squads-right...
...that world of information, however, is a reflection of his culture. To wit, a farmer sees a different meadow than a city the large human questions at stake than can a different notion of "culture" than a bacteriologist or intellectual historian...