Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their rescue came generous sponsors: the 27-nation Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, which is paying their way to South America, and the Protestants' World Council of Churches, which found and bought their Brazilian refuge. The site: 6,000 acres of rich pineland, 10% cleared, about 200 miles southwest of Sāo Paulo. Led by 74-year-old Starik (Elder) Antonov Kulikov, the first contingent of Old Believers picked up 64 tons of seed, fertilizer, tools and clothing in Los Angeles from U.S. Protestants before sailing for Brazil...
...locale in the moral sump at the dead end of Tobacco Road, and Novelist Erskine Caldwell mucked about in it so merrily that his novel has sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 25 years. Cleaned up for the cinema public, Caldwell's Acre still contains enough rich, smelly dirt to grow a mort of the sort of lettuce Hollywood loves best...
...bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney. Moaned one property owner: "It was like being in an African ant pile. There were so many of them it wouldn't have done any good to kill one." Other get-rich-quick hopefuls delved beneath the gravestones in a local cemetery, pulled up surveyors' stakes in a newly laid-out subdivision...
...child of rich parents, Ruth grew up in an atmosphere of private schools, Stutz...
...classless society" -a conclusion with which few readers are likely to quarrel. ¶ "From the train . . . window" the peasants were "all decently dressed." Only about 5,000 of the big shots among them have been "executed." Moreover, there have been "editorials guaranteeing a comfortable future to former landowners and rich peasants who have been suitably re-educated...