Word: rural
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Stout described her upbringing in a small rural community as the daughter of a tenant farmer and a mill worker, where she cherished a dream of "going to college, owning a house and having running water...
...when at Christmas in 1962 my parents gave me a superb Hallicrafters world-band radio receiver that I might hear German away from my classroom, I was already primed to listen. For a rural junior-high school kid, the radio was a Christmas-day magic box, and once I strung copper wire from the house to a huge white pine far out in the swamp, I grasped that box's reach...
...ahead of United States ones. And never, ever (in my experience) do the alumni realize that once upon a time, in secondary school or even earlier, they learned a language other than English not because they might one day have business in Quebec or be stationed in Frankfurt (what rural New England kids heard in 1962 before anyone mentioned "junior year abroad") but in part at least, in order to learn how to learn...
...name, a face, and a grief. There is also a culpability and responsibility that we all share. The problem of youth violence is not a "ghetto" problem from which we can hide, behind the wrought-iron gates of Harvard. The problem is widespread and complicated, affecting children in rural and suburban areas as well as urban children. In 1987, 415,000 violent crimes occurred in or around schools. We all have a responsibility to provide a safe community for children--all children. Since we share in the problem, we must also share in its solutions...
Pellett listed those hardest hit by the sanctions, namely the rural poor, and noted that the sanctions have had little, if any, injurious effect upon the military leadership and power elite...