Word: tumbledown
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...clutter of gingerbready desks, cheaply painted walls. He lunches in S.-P.'s small dining room; one of his favorite dishes is hash. His home life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown wreck, sanded his own floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop ("It's the scabbiest workshop...
...rich, not from his plays and histories but because he was a shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...
...Communist North flooded into his parish, Father Jacques's life became busier than ever. "Priests," said the local Communist leader, "are always on the side of rich men." But the parishioners of Giadinh knew better, seeing their priest trudging wearily on his daily errands and returning to his tumbledown vicarage riddled with termites. Their juiciest fruits and biggest duck eggs were reserved for the father's table...
...morning last fortnight, all these people marched out past their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
...Richland, Wash., he seeks out the red-staked " 'burial grounds' in which radioactive refuse is interred," adding quite correctly that such cemeteries will be an ever-growing hazard to mankind through succeeding generations. He stops at Ellenton, S.C. to shed a tear over the disappearance of the tumbledown little town, which is being removed to make way for the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Project...