Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have learned to live with a gun by our beds and ammunition close by," a farmer's wife told the newspaper...
...medical care were given numbers by armed Israeli soldiers and shown a place to wait. An outhouse and a pipe for drinking water had also been put up near by. "In sha 'allah, let it be like this for the rest of our lives," said a young Maronite farmer at the fence last week...
...holes, as if they had been struck with tiny hailstones." Within a few days, household pets in the area started to bleed at the nose and mouth, then die. Farmyard chickens dropped dead, wild birds fell from trees, mice and rats crawled out of their holes and died. One farmer saw his cat keel over, and when he went to pick up the body, the tail fell off. When authorities dug the cat up for examination two days later, said the farmer, all that was left was its skull...
...Bette Davis? Why Helena Rubinstein and not Diana Vreeland? And for that matter, why Joan Baez at all? And why is the most written about and talked about women of the present day--Jackie Onassis--not even mentioned once? Perhaps to make room for Shirley Temple and Fannie Farmer. This nit-picking, where-is-my-favorite reaction is the natural result of Life's muddied intentions. These are not the most famous American women (who the hell was Claire McCardell?) nor the most exemplary (witness the inclusions of Lizzie Borden and Hetty Green.) The women have been classified under...
...with yoooo..." The man also ran moonshine in a beautiful super-charged '49 Merc, same style, until one misty pre-dawn 4 o' clock he came powersliding around Left-Hand Hill, head full of twanging country music and yellowjackets, to meet broadside the combine of an early-morning farmer who was pulling it across the road. The Mercury, little more than engine and gasoline and mason jars full of 145-proof alcohol, immediately ignited. People down in the valley whose bedrooms faced the hillside rose, wiping sleep from their eyes and wondering at the false dawn. The Baptist congregations...