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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brazil: Echoes from the Confederacy | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Mar. 10, 1986 | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bush League Adventures in a Mud Hut | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: Historic Building To Open Its Doors to City's Multicultural Arts | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

Cellular and Molecular Biology has recommended a candidate for tenure, but President Bok has yet to convene an ad hoe committee to review the recommendation, said Department Administrator Diane Baldwin...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges and Charles T. Kurzman, S | Title: Waiting for the White Smoke: A Peek at Harvard's Tenure Searches | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

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