Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precipice of the civil war nearly brought on by the revolution. The central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as Tibet, Yunnan and Fukien. Despite the army's efforts to control the recent harvest, the peasants are hoarding a larger-than-usual share of the grain crop. Thus, despite a better harvest than last year, Peking's take has been poorer...
...revolutionary. When the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt's sun-drenched canvas, Strayed Sheep, was displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary he kept reads not a little like Van Gogh's. "Intensely miserable," Brown noted at one point. "Very hard up, and a little...
Molded Antiques. Bill Krawski, 28, comes from a family of Connecticut tobacco farmers, but five years ago he decided to harvest barns instead of plants. He has stripped 120 barns, including enough to restore the entire Old Mystic Seaport Village. But Krawski sees an end in sight, reckons that there are only about 100 more tobacco barns in Connecticut to be reaped...
Some Southwesterners, in the harsh, half-forgotten tradition of the Old West, refused to be awed by the natural disaster. Speaking of the eight deaths on the Navajo Reservation, Presbyterian Missionary Harold Borhauer, 45, said: "I bury more than that at the opening of the pinon season"-the autumn harvest of protein-rich pinon nuts, during which Indians have been known to die of respiratory ailments contracted in the chilly mountains. Adee Dodge, a Navajo painter, added a peculiarly Indian note of resignation: "We publicly thank all the dear gods of this world for having caused such a windfall...
...contains some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops and an equal number of indigenous Pathet Lao guerrillas, any Communist offensive is a serious matter, but the current one is probably not an all-out drive. This is the beginning of the dry season and the end of the rice harvest, an annual time of skirmishing and rice foraging by the Communists. Still, they are not completely safe in their sanctuary. The U.S. regularly flies bombing runs into Laos, and U.S. warplanes in the past several weeks are reported to have destroyed some 1,000 North Vietnamese trucks there...