Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This new farmer is smarter as well as richer than the farmers of an earlier time. One man says, "It used to be that if you had a child who wasn't too bright, you'd say, 'Son, you're going to be a farmer." But things are different...
...their commanders if ordered to attack protesters with bullets and bayonets. Moreover, "shooting Iran into political silence," as one Tehran newspaper put it, would probably fail. Many Western experts believe that the Shah's only hope of calming the unrest is to step aside in favor of his son...
...those reasons, he had the whole-hearted public support of all state Democratic leaders--except Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54--and the valuable fund-raising help of U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.). Oddly enough, O'Neill's son, Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III, had unexpectedly found himself as King's running mate the morning after the primary...
...children all seem to enjoy farming, but Pat insists that they not make up their minds about careers until they finish college. Says Pat: "I've seen some families come to blows because a son was forced to farm when he didn't want to." But last year, when he bought still another neighbor's farm, Pat for the first time left the house standing because "it would be perfect for one of the kids...
...Cortázar wrote, he clipped news paper articles about political torture and other governmental outrages. He has his characters read these from day to day and paste them into a scrapbook for little Manuel, the baby son of two cell mem bers. The dispatches are photocopied in the novel so that the fictional Manuel, and all of the real Manuels who may be involved in the struggle some day, will know what their elders were fighting against. But there is no real attempt to examine the causes of right-wing terror or the pendulum swing left to counterterror...