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Word: rurals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never got to know Grady very well during the five months I worked on that newspaper. But now I have a photograph of him hanging above my desk. He's standing on a plot of farmland in rural and red-neck Yadkin County, grinning broadly, wearing green silk robes and cradling a machine gun. Joe Grady was the Grand Dragon of North Carolina's Federated Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Stalking the Klan | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...encounter with the Klan was probably my most dramatic adventure as a reporter in North Carolina but it was not typical. More common were dull evenings at high school commencements or jaunts to union meetings at rural hamburger stands. At the Forsyth County Courthouse I heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Stalking the Klan | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...remained in the background and raised four children during her husband's rise. Both times when he was purged, she followed him into rural exile. But when he journeyed to Japan last fall, she adopted a public role, standing ceremoniously by his side and visiting schools and factories. She also took on a sensitive post in the Communist Party's Military Advisory Commission, reportedly to keep watch on security matters for her husband. But she has no political strength of her own and is not a member of the ruling Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Old Acquaintance at First Sight | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rural Luddites | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Throttling back their Soviet T-54 and PT-76 Soviet tanks and ar mored personnel carriers, maintaining air control by means of captured U.S. F-5Es and A-37s, along with Soviet MiGs, the Vietnamese started a second-phase maneuver. They moved along rural routes into isolated areas seeking to surround and wipe out the pockets they had bypassed in the initial rush. Unable to bring ar tillery to bear on such swiftly moving foes, the Khmer offered only brief opposition and then faded back to secondary defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The Anatomy of a Blitzkrieg | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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