Word: rural
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Solzhenitsyn, meanwhile, rarely strays from the 50-acre estate in rural Vermont that he bought eight years ago because it reminded him of his beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier...
...study showed that a least 30,000 miles of the system would have to be rehabilitated during this decade. Rehabilitation, of course, can mean anything from simple resurfacing to wholesale rebuilding--where resurfacing runs about $500,000 per mile and rebuilding anywhere from $5 million a mile in uncluttered rural areas to an "unlimited sum" for urban environs, Staron says...
Glemp's troubles began when he ordered Father Mieczyslaw Nowak, 40, who had served for seven years as a priest in the Ursus church, to move to a rural parish of Leki Koscielne. Normally the transfer would have gone unchallenged. But Nowak was an outspoken supporter of Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. His name had appeared on a government list of 69 priests under investigation for possible illegal activities. Since the Church of St. Joseph the Worker draws its members from the nearby Ursus tractor factory, a sprawling plant that was once famous as a union stronghold...
Shamed and disillusioned by his only gods, medicine and himself, he has bolted from the hospital, gathered up his neglected wife (Phyllis Somerville) and possessively loved son (Damion Scheller), and taken them to the home of his father, a rural revivalist preacher (Hume Cronyn...
DIED. Jim ("Grandpa") McCoy, 99, patriarch of the Kentucky McCoys and the last survivor of the violent 19th century feud with the West Virginia Hatfields that took 30 to 50 lives over 30 years; of congestive heart failure; in Liberty, Ky. Although bloodshed between the rural Appalachian clans ceased long ago, it was not until May 1976 that former Coal Miner McCoy and the late Willis Hatfield, then 88, shook hands to end America's most famous misunderstanding, the origins of which are unknown. Last week, to the strains of Amazing Grace, the McCoys gathered to pay their last...