Word: rusticate
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...Ayuh, ayuh. Listen, you moved here four years ago from Central Park West, so forget the rustic impersonations. What I need is, you know somebody we could use for an interview? Typical local, not too smooth, not too dumb...
Students spend hours juggling blueprints, calculators and carpenters' tools in a rustic world of brick-walled classrooms and wood-burning stoves. Despite the casual atmosphere, the program is rigorous. The Hennins and their 15 part-time instructors, all Shelter graduates, guide pupils through an intensive primer of house-building skills, including house design, surveying, masonry, carpentry, plumbing and wiring...
...gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent's Manual of the Trees of North America and John...
...negative reaction when I went to talk over my proposal with Jack Reardon," Jackson, who missed the 1978 football campaign (he plays middle guard) due to torn cartilage in his left knee, said. But he impressed the athletic director with a thorough knowledge of insurance requirements for the rustic IAB, the University's rules on the matter, and an itemized cost breakdown for the benefit. Jackson also had on-the-job experience organizing a Labor Day boxing benefit in Erie, Pa., with Harvard's U.S. Marine Corps champion boxer Ron Di Nicola...
...clear that Flannery would have made her mark as a writer no matter where and how she lived her grownup years. She was born a Southerner and a Roman Catholic, and the vision that animated all her fiction came early: the infusion of divine grace into the lives of rustic, often grotesque characters who either do not recognize or cannot handle it. This plus talent and true grit guaranteed her status as an original. But the lupus made her a prodigious writer of letters as well. "Mail is very eventful to me," she wrote one friend shortly after returning...