Word: grainfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courthouse in Gove, Kans. (pop. 140). Sheriff Dean Baum began reading off the legal orders under which the personal property of C. David Jensen and his wife Virginia, both 54, would be sold to satisfy an unpaid debt of $180,000 to the Citizens State Bank of nearby Grainfield. Someone threw snowballs at one of the sheriff's deputies, and someone else shouted at the assembled officials: "Why don't you go out and steal them?" That was a reference to the two cars, three trucks, two tractors, a combine and other Jensen possessions...
...something that makes privilege worthwhile. But Calcutta's intelligentsia seem out of touch with the people they see around them, and they feel their estrangement. There's a joke about the economists charged with increasing India's food production and improving distribution: none of them have ever seen a grainfield in their lives, or even bought their own groceries...