Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, the guerrillas detonated a grenade atop a land mine placed under the tracks of the Rhodesia-South Africa railroad-just as a freight train was passing. The blast derailed the train and destroyed a section of the track. Three days later, terrorists fired at a farmer in a passing car, wounding him in the shoulder...
King Leka of Albania, 37, is the tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) of the monarchs-in-waiting and comes from the youngest royal house (founded 1928). Married to the daughter of an Australian sheep farmer, he lives near Madrid. He is a friend of Ronald Reagan (to whom he once gave a baby elephant) and keeps in touch with the 3 million Albanians in exile...
Bolstering her narrative with a rather cumbersome psychohistory, Kearns tries to explain Johnson's massive drive to power. She makes much of the fact that his father, a small farmer and real estate trader, insisted on displays of manliness from him, while his mother emphasized gentility. Lavish with her love at times, his mother withheld it when he displeased her. Out of these inner conflicts, Kearns traces the development of a tormented, driven politician. But Johnson may also have been shaped as much by Texas and national political traditions. His political education began amid rural poverty...
...grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles' ancient heroine that "it is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands...
...buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely roads in broad daylight, buses blown up by mines. Army helicopters hunt guerrillas in scrubland and forested hill country along the frontier, and patrols in brown and green camouflage probe cautiously through the brush, automatic weapons at the ready. To protect themselves, white farmers have installed pushbutton alarm systems that alert police posts in case of attack. Fierce Rhodesian ridgeback dogs roam the grounds, and thick steel mesh covers many windows. Some have even dug sandbagged slit trenches in their yards to provide quick cover. Almost nobody drives after sunset, and evening social life...