Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkey and elsewhere, however, U.S. efforts run squarely into the private-profit motive. For example, a Turkish farmer can receive as much as $94 if he sells the harvest of an acre of poppies to smugglers. By contrast, he stands to earn only $4.83 an acre if he grows wheat...
...Frost in Captivity." The first volume of Thompson's biography dealt with the powerful rages and resentments displayed by Frost early in life. Such faults seemed less shocking in a turbulent childhood, and more justified during the 20 years in which Frost struggled to support himself as a farmer and teacher as publishers kept rejecting what proved to be much of his best work...
Party planners in Hanoi regularly criticize North Vietnamese farmers for "leisurely ways of working," but that is only part of the problem. The Japanese farmer, who has all sorts of machinery and chemicals at hand, turns out a quintal (about 220 Ibs.) of rice in less than two hours; in North Viet Nam, where even hand tools are in short supply, it takes 64 to 80 hours. Just to meet the minimum needs of its people. Hanoi must import 800,000 tons of rice and wheat flour a year...
Died. Frances Farmer, 56, honey-haired Broadway and Hollywood beauty of the late '30s; of cancer; in Indianapolis. Her fourth movie, Come and Get It, was a smash hit in 1936, and she conquered Broadway with equal ease a year later in Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. After that came raging fights with coworkers, bouts of alcoholism and finally, mental breakdown. Eventually, she recovered her health and went on to host a popular Indianapolis TV show...
...named Every Dill. Many years before, Every had not only raped and robbed her but rescued her from a mental hospital into which her mean big-city sister had placed her when she was entirely sane. Latha does not lack for more manageable suitors-the town drunk, an amorous farmer, the enraptured child. But she waits, more or less chastely, for Every to return. Eventually he does so, a reformed man turned revival preacher...