Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northern Zambia, landing at a missionary station and school a few miles from the Zaïre border. Here the transportation problem beset him too. The missionaries fed him and translated for him but balked at lending him a car: Spanish journalists the previous year had borrowed a local farmer's car, only to be arrested across the border in Zaïre and have the car destroyed. Consequently, Wood explored the nearby border roads to report on the strange victory march of the rebels in their victims' clothes, driving stolen cars, to the cheers of native bystanders...
Susan B. Anthony, the celebrated suffragist (1820-1906), is the front runner, but Amelia Earhart is closing fast, well ahead of Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Fanny Farmer, Grandma Moses, Martha Mitchell, Sara Lee, Anita Bryant, Shirley Temple and Whistler's Mother. All are candidates in a campaign to put a woman's face on a dollar coin that the Government plans to issue, probably in mid-1979. Since word became known of the plan, the Treasury has been receiving 700 to 800 nominations...
...result, the entire ecosystem is completely off balance. During the past 20 years, at least 450 varieties of plants and 204 species of birds have disappeared from the region. With so many of their natural enemies gone, pests and parasites have proliferated, attacking grass, leaves and fruit. Says Farmer Franz Hummel, "Nobody even bothers to raise papaya any more-they are all full of bugs...
Cuddy said traditionally in Ireland, each farmer has a brood matron from which he breeds a litter. This contrasts with the huge greyhound breeding farms in Texas and Florida. "In Ireland, things are not so institutionalized as here. In my opinion, though, multi-million dollar plants do not necessarily make racing better," Cuddy said...
...court decision requiring the Government to enforce the Federal Reclamation Act of 1902, which has been largely ignored in recent years. The law, which applies chiefly to 1 million acres in 18 Western states, sets limits on the amount of federally irrigated land that can be owned by a farmer. Andrus has proposed redistributing the land and limiting owners to 960 acres each-a direct blow at the holdings of large corporate farmers. Many Western farmers also oppose Carter's determination to hold down agricultural subsidies. West Coast lumbermen fault him for not easing restrictions on their operations...