Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commissioners-a farmer, a contractor and a forester-took their responsibilities seriously. While approving the plant, they put ten severe restrictions on its wastes. Result: Spruce Tissue resented being told precisely what kind of low-sulfur fuel oil to use, and said it could not comply with water-pollution regulations that sounded as though the company would have to clean up the entire Hoosic River...
...that a V.C.? I'm home now and I hear people saying, 'Everyone there is a V.C.' Are these people right? Maybe so. I hear people screaming, 'Stop the war.' Are they right? Maybe so." Today Calley even wonders whether the Vietnamese farmer who wants only to till his land would really suffer under Communism. "It probably wouldn't hurt him a damned bit-compared to a war, Communism could be a godsend...
...violence that was inflamed by an August bombing at the University of Wisconsin. He countered Democratic arguments that defense spending must be cut: "A strong America is more important than even clean air, waste disposal and pollution." In the main, listeners were interested and impressed. At another point one farmer shocked the candidate. "It doesn't make much difference who goes to Congress," he grumbled. "They try to line their own pockets...
...novel, I Will Fear No Evil, which is being serialized in Galaxy, and I feel somewhat as if I had sat at the feet of the blind Homer and heard him lean over to me and say, "Did you ever hear the one about the travelling salesman and the farmer's daughter...
...Gene Farmer...