Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not know any better than to try to "make hay" in a rose garden expect voters to think he possesses the qualifications necessary to be a successful President of the U.S.? Any grass-roots farmer would know better than that...
...great many Rhodesians, how ever, Ian Smith is still "good old Smithy," the taciturn farmer who, had he been left alone, might have been able to preserve "the Rhodesian way of life" for the country's 274,000 whites. He was not left alone, they believe, and so he had no choice...
Resignation, rather than rage, seems to be the prevailing mood. A middle-aged farmer from the Mozambique border area struck a common theme. "I'm tired of running," he sighed. "I left Kenya when it became independent and went to Zambia. Then Zambia turned sour for whites, and I came here. Now Rhodesia is going black. The logical place to go may be South Africa, but race relations there are a bloody sight worse than ours. So I'll stay and take my chances, just as long as the blacks don't go bonkers." His buddy...
...have returned to a changed country. South Koreans, Kimball says, told him they were worried that Jimmy Carter would become president. All Kimball could tell them was "Who's Carter?" Stromberg caught a glimpse of a Newseek cover of Carter just before he left Japan, and wondered what "that farmer who was governor of Georgia" was doing there...
...Groton, Conn., he stresses his years in the Navy and his belief in "a strong, muscular defense." Before the B'nai B'rith in Washington, he notes that he and other Baptists consider the creation of Israel to be "the fulfillment of biblical prophecy." Speaking to farmers in Des Moines, he reminds them that he too is a farmer and urges an end to grain embargoes...