Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sisters attended service at the Baptist Church in McCrae. At home he listened while Gene Talmadge read the Bible or talked politics. When he forgot his chores, Herman felt his father's swift justice: a whipping administered with the stinging end of a plowline. On the farm, too, he gradually learned a special discipline: that he and the small sons of the Negro field hands with whom he played must eventually go their separate, segregated ways...
...gang of youngsters had ridden from one police station to another in a truck, collecting arms. They had driven out into the country to get more arms, and when they found the roads back to Poznan blocked by tanks they sought refuge at a state farm. There, Caczkowski said, "I realized I had done wrong." So he telephoned for police and surrendered himself. When police came "they treated me as though they were in the SS. They beat me and kicked me after I had given myself...
Only a handful of insiders know precisely what happens between the first wisp of dawn, when 500 to 600 lorries loaded with farm produce roll into the Rome market, and the morning hours when the loads are distributed among the city's retailers. But the prices soar sometimes to triple those paid the wholesaler, thanks to the manipulations of the few insiders. They are the "captains" and the "queens" of the market, middlemen who tightly control prices but seldom keep the food in their own possession for more than half an hour. A wholesaler or retailer who dares...
...owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget" a $1,797.45 suit she has brought against him for floral decorations grown on her farm and peddled in turn by him to Broadway shows. Doris was not irked by the petty cash involved. Snapped her attorney: "It's a matter of principle...
...time of day, the American lowers his eyes and smiles shyly, as if filled with gratitude and the sense of his own unworthiness. And when he meets the European Woman (Elisabeth Mueller). the young wolf of Wall Street stands there with his tail between his legs, like an Iowa farm boy suddenly confronted with Madame de Staël. The lady is obviously intelligent, or so the scriptwriter seems to think, because she never stops talking. She must be cultured because she pounds incessantly on a piano. And she has certainly known life because-as she informs the hero...