Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party unity, Alabama Governor George Wallace held court in his suite at the Holiday Inn, receiving visits from a dozen state delegations and some 20 Congressmen. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who is due to announce his candidacy this week, expertly worked the lobbies, smiling his down-home peanut-farmer grin, and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a millionaire, threw the biggest blast: a cocktail party attended by 4,000 people...
...said the art teachers who travel around to communes would probably use a peasant's depressing painting for "teaching by negative example"--I liked most of them very much; they seemed a lot like Unicef Christmas cards. And I liked one of the painters we met, a thin, shy farmer. She said she'd begun to paint because "there are many new things and many good things I want to paint, these things have always been up in my mind but I had no technique--I didn't know how to paint, and these things have been lingering...
...only bright spot for the Dean cagers, who trailed 39-18 at the half, was Tommy Farmer, who yielded a team high of 17 points in the contest. He could have sued for non-support, however, as the next highest total on the Dean team came from Rick Fesick with a whopping five points...
Bargaining with the quiet assistance of Federal Mediator W.J. Usery Jr., negotiators for the U.M.W. and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association led by General Counsel Guy Farmer came close to reaching tentative agreement early last week. But at week's end they still had not been able to wrap up a pact, and though some hope of a quick settlement remained, no time was left to stop the strike. Any new contract must be ratified by miners around the nation, a process that will take ten days or so. Miller last week firmly closed the door on any possibility...
...windswept cornfield near the aptly named Minnesota farming community of Pillager last week, a farmer placed the barrel of a 22-cal. pistol against the head of a three-month-old calf and pulled the trigger, felling the animal instantly. Another farmer then slit the calf's jugular vein. Its carcass was dragged to a freshly dug trench and kicked in. Another calf was shot and disposed of in the same manner, then another and another, until by midafternoon almost 300 head had been destroyed and piled in the pit. The day's last kill was a sackful...