Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capt. Jack C. Morse of the University police last week cautioned that pursesnatchings and assaults occur more often during the summer because more people are outdoors and some students may be more accustomed to rural, safer areas...
...Lion Eat Straw is the story of Abeba, the "African Flower," who is born in rural North Carolina to an absentee father and a resentful mother. That mother soon disappears, bound for Brooklyn. Abeba's first six years pass happily with old Mamma Habblesham, a midwife, in this land of makeshift and make-believe...
...Albuquerque with a vertical-axis wind-turbine design that looks like a weird eggbeater. Like all windmills, it suffers commercially from having intermittent power output, but the small estimated cost of no more than 50 per kw-h can make it an attractive alternative, especially in inaccessible and rural areas, where power is costly...
...That disbelieving headline appeared in the Toronto Star three years ago, the day after an obscure M.P. from rural Alberta emerged as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, following a hotly contested convention. The question quickly became a national joke, and the joke led to insults. "Henry Aldrich from Alberta," sniffed one Liberal Cabinet minister...
Last July 4 Baker hit splendor dead-on with a misty, elegiac column called "Summer Beyond Wish." The piece was set in the rural Virginia of his boyhood. It was full of love, the rich, buzzing emptiness of a country summer and the sense that poverty was near...