Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scarce twigs, then boils coffee with the last drops of water from a gourd and sweetens it with a piece of sugarcane. Her daughter Melina, 6, places the gourd on her head and begins a morning-long walk to a well. Mercius, meanwhile, picks up his wooden hoe, balances it on his shoulder and scuttles down the mountainside to till a field of millet for a gros neg, a landowning peasant. If he is lucky, he will earn 60 cents for his day's work...
Brazilian farmers readily embraced such Rebel contributions as the kerosene lamp and the steel-blade plow, a godsend to a country that hadn't got past the simple hoe. The Southern missionaries whom the settlers hired as teachers also had a lasting impact. The educational tradition they began is one reason that Americana has only a 14% illiteracy rate in a country where one-fourth of the population cannot read or write...
...sandbox, a six-year-old boy is attacked by a playmate wielding a toy rake. The child retaliates with a toy hoe, hacking his assailant to death. Nearly a half-century later, while seeing his son off to summer camp, the killer, grown to uneasy manhood, is accidentally hit with the lid of a taxi trunk; he bleeds profusely, and for a few minutes believes he is dying. These ) events merge in his mind with TV-news footage of prison violence in Peru: guards shooting inmates who are in the midst of stabbing one another. All these images commingle with...
...eager, friendly and articulate informants, all committed to Western notions of veracity. He finds the tribe's way of life is marked by high spirituality and harmony with nature. After a suitable time, the anthropologist is warmly welcomed into the tribe, usually after he scratches the earth with a hoe, showing that he too understands the ways of nature...
Says Debra A. Wise, one of the group's puppeteers, "If we perform in more traditional spaces it's because of the generosity of others. There's been precious few places to perform around here-it's been ad hoe...