Word: farmsteads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of his days, Norwegians heaped contempt on the old recluse they had once revered as "the giant of the North." Thousands of copies of his famed novels were mailed back to him or dumped on the doorstep of his south coast farmstead. Before he died in 1952, a Norwegian court blocked all the old man's bank accounts, imposed a fine of 425,000 kroner ($86,000), which was later reduced to 325,000 kroner...
...text. In them a plain-Jane, a complacent family, a fruitful farm and a brutal sport are presented head on, neatly and with no nonsense. Yet the girl's iron coiffure, the bilateral symmetry of the family's bird cages, the minted gold sky over the farmstead and the shoe-button eyes of the battle royal's 129 spectators are vivid touches for all their technical clumsiness...
...uplands of Kenya last week, Mau Mau bands emerged from hiding and struck hard at the noose of steel that British security forces are painfully tightening around them. Sixty terrorists poured 500 rounds of Sten-gun and rifle fire into one isolated farmstead, but a brave settler and his wife drove them off with a single rifle. Others attacked the home of 93-year-old Margaret Mallet, Kenya's oldest European woman, but were driven off by loyal Africans...
...budget on consumers (education, health, culture), he said, and by some Marxist magic which he did not elaborate, they actually would get back 127 billion rubles "more than they will contribute to it." He denounced the previous "incorrect attitude" towards the poor collective farmer, whose "private auxiliary farmstead" had been heavily taxed, and his private cows taken from him. All this would be changed...
Thou Shalt Not. Malan got religion early. He was born of French Huguenot stock in a farmstead named Allesverloren (Everything Is Lost), which snuggled among the soaring mountains and vine-garlanded valleys of West Cape Province. In his parents' devout household, the rule was "Thou Shalt Not." Each evening "Danie" and his younger brother Fanie were called indoors to hear spade-bearded Papa Malan reading from his family Bible to his black servants...