Word: plowmen
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...witness the meet. Truman gave the 80th Congress hell, delightedly kicked some newly turned clods of earth as if they were Republicans, and came away with a huge grin, convinced that the reception he got from the dirt farmers meant he would beat Tom Dewey, who had snubbed the plowmen. From then on the plow meet became a must campaign stop for aspiring Presidents...
...Convoy, Ohio, this August. And his son Gary, 31, twice a national champion, will compete. If history repeats itself, Gary will bring home another trophy to put with the collection already in the Goettemoeller farm home. More important than the trophy to Gary is the fellowship of other skilled plowmen and the feel of turning the earth with precision and beauty. Gary's special joy lies in the patterns of cultivation, the symmetry of plowed fields and ruler-straight furrows carved meticulously beside one another. "I have in my mind what good plowing should be," he says. "When...
...advance their common purposes. Armorers did a brisk business in swords, helmets and arquebuses, forerunners of the musket. In February 1579 the drapers of Romans paraded with weapons and elected a burly colleague, Paumier, as their festival chief. He also became the factional leader of angry craftsmen, tradesmen and plowmen. Soon there were two governments in Romans: Paumier and his followers had seized control of the city gates, a vital link to leaguers in the countryside. By the latter part of 1579, butchers and bakers were defiantly withholding taxes. Daringly and, as it turned out, fatally, Paumier's faction...
Businessmen they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth...
...every daylight hour outdoors, for in one Mountainville summer alone, he turned out 50 watercolors, plus drawings and oils. He painted everything from sheep grazing in a distant field to grizzled guides, husky young trappers, beguiling children and young shepherdesses. Sometimes-no one knows quite why-he dressed his plowmen and shepherdesses in costumes of the 18th century. But for the most part, Homer was faithful to what he saw-a boy and girl climbing over an old stile, a young girl seeking a scrap of shade, a lone woodsman affectionately stroking the bark of a tree, or a guide...