Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand. If everyone in New Hampshire sells real estate and comes from New Jersey, why all of this crusty-farmer nonsense...
...Wehrwein (Y) 29:59; 2. Murphy (H) 30:01; 3. Eichner (h) 30:11; 4. Logan (H) 30:37; 5. Farmer (P) 30:48; 6. Costello (P) 30:57; 7. Scidmore (H) 30:59; 8. Mearns (Y) 31:08; 9. Erling (Y) 31:11; 10. Rowe (P) 31:13; 11. Johnson (H) 31:14; 12. Takaro (Y) 31:20; 13. Challener (P) 31:22; 14. Schuler (H) 31:23; 15. Heimerdinger (P) 31:27; 16. Osborne (Y) 31:29; 17. Olds (P) 31:35; 18. Weber (H) 31:37; 19. Sears (Y) 31:47; 20. Skehan...
Upon reaching the house, the monks greeted the owners, a farmer and his wife, and requested some tea. As they sat in the kitchen a two-year-old boy ran into the room and hopped onto a monk's lap. The boy correctly called the disguised traveler "a lama of Sera," and identified two other members of his party as well. The child, named Tenzin Gyatso, spoke to the lamas in the court dialect of Lhasa, unknown to anyone in his district...
...often do you change your tractor tires?" Aleksei Kosygin, the Premier, asked Farmer Bergland on his last Kremlin visit. "About every 4,000 hours," he answered. "Engines?" asked the cool-eyed Soviet, a fellow normally associated with missiles and megatons, not farm machinery. "Every 10,000 to 15,000 hours," replied Bergland. The old Russian thought a few seconds and then gave his people a short lecture about the disadvantages of the Soviet policy of replacement by the calendar, not actual need...
...thief," he tells his brother while priming him for the trade, but Sobhrai doesn't do himself justice. Accompanied by two or three of his gang--a strange Pakestanian named Ajay, a marvelous Melanesian named May, an oafish Belgian named Hugey and a 30-year-old Canadian farmer's daughter who throws away her sedate life for the promises of a man she met once in Bangkok--he roams the Asian continent, Sobhraj is more than a simple drug and rob man; he is a conman, hustler and egomaniac. And he is successful...