Word: farmhands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proof, Van Tonder refers proudly ; to "Danger" Mahlangu, his farmhand, who is paid $120 a month. Van Tonder also supplies a house for Mahlangu and his family, plus board, fuel and medical care. Mahlangu's grandfather, who was also born in this area, belonged to the small Ndebele tribe which came under the "protection" of the Boers when they were threatened by the warlike Zulus. Says Van Tonder: "My people saved the Ndebele from extermination." Last weekend there was a three-day feast and tribal dancing in honor of Mahlangu's 13-year-old daughter, who was welcomed...
Smith, a youthful farmhand, reported that an angel named Moroni had showed him some golden tablets that had been buried near Palmyra, N.Y. The tablets were in an unknown language, "reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics," and Smith could read them only by peering through two miraculous stones* that the angel gave him. The 522-page Book of Mormon declares that the New World's Indians were actually Jews who sailed from the Near East in the 6th century B.C., and that they were later visited by Jesus Christ after his resurrection...
...drudgery, Anna married a tough young vagabond named Big Karl whom she met at a barn dance. He promised freedom and adventure, but the dream went unrealized: for seven years she followed him up and down Norway, always adrift and usually starving. She worked at various times as a farmhand and lumberjack, only to watch him disappear and squander her money...
...Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile speculations grow deadlier, she recalls a newsreel showing bodies stacked in a concentration camp, then thinks of -"ten billion of them...