Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning the shortage of doctors in rural areas, he said that the development of improved roads and centralized hospitals in these areas has greatly decreased the need...
...sectional differences in language, except for "smog free" California real estate. A house is "cute," "a cutie," "adorable," "exquisite," "elegant," "a dandy," "magnificent," "glamorous," "spic & span," "clean as a pin," "a rare find"-and inevitably near everything and a "real bargain." A farm is never a farm but "a rural hideaway," "rustic retreat," or "secluded estate...
Prairie dogs, burrowing owls and rattlesnakes-so says an old legend-all live happily together in the same holes. For years zoologists have protested that this kind of thing is very unlikely. But many a rural Midwesterner refuses to give up the legend. Farmers testify that they have seen owls and prairie dogs coming out of the same hole. Some maintain stoutly that they have seen an owl go down a hole and a moment later heard the buzzing of a rattler there...
...strangled to death by a patient whom he had urged the superintendent to release as "such a decent chap." It took another beating at the hands of the crusty old general practitioner who took him on as an assistant and harnessed him mercilessly to the back-breaking round of rural practice...
...style. Telling the story in sprightly native idiom, Selina succumbs to digressions almost as often as to Boss Paul. Periodically, the novel stops to paint a tapestry of South African customs and manners, e.g., the rousing celebration of Dingaan's Day, a Boer national holiday, a bit of rural horseplay in which a gullible farmer eats lizard's eggs thinking they are stomach pills. Selina's voice bobs through the story, alternately playful and plaintive, but finally conveying the pain and humiliation for which she can never find a real remedy...