Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christened John Brooks Elam, Fuqua was adopted and raised by his mother's parents and given their name. His mother died from complications arising at childbirth, and his father, a struggling tobacco farmer, could not afford to raise...
Anxious to escape the farmer's lot in Prince Edward County, Va., Fuqua borrowed books on radio through the mail from Duke University and quickly obtained a ham operator's license and then a commercial operator's license...
...house where a man was digging at some newly-sprouted crops that popped out of well-groomed furrows. In the small yard adjoining the house there were a couple of pigs eating out of a feeding trough. In the corner was a large, hemispherical earthen oven, where the farmer's wife baked bread. A pile of freshly-cut eucalyptus wood lay next to the oven. The man, very small and with a rough wizened face, had walked up to within a few yards of me and stopped, his wooden hoe in hand. I indicated the peanuts in my hand...
...cannot rate it among the ten best American daily newspapers [Jan. 21], certainly the Des Moines Register should be in eleventh place. It supplies what Iowa needs: good national and international reporting, sprightly accounts of local doings, consistent but not overweening concern for the farmer, and daily kicks in the butts of reactionary native-born Iowans...
Josie's father Phil' (Handel's) is a bantam rooster of a Connecticut pig farmer with a tongue that spits black Irish bile at his Yankee neighbors. Phil is Tyrone's tenant, and he mistakenly fears that the scapegrace James intends to sell the farm. He baits a sex trap. Josie and James will be found in bed together. James will do the right thing and marry her. She will inherit the farm...