Word: ruralization
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This sign on roads passing near a rambling house in rural Hertfordshire came down last week. Death came from a heart attack, at 77, to Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Westminster, spiritual leader of 2,400,000 Roman Catholics in England and Wales.* For the first time since the Reformation, Englishmen in general mourned the passing of a Roman Catholic Archbishop...
...book's best features is Smith's own father, an oldtime archetypical rural griper who felt friendly to socialism the minute he saw a picture of the late John D. Rockefeller on a golf course; who reads each issue of TIME "from cover to cover, talking and cussing a blue streak -not really at TIME, but at the human beings whose antics are reported in its pages...
...Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, onetime superintendent of New Jersey State Police when the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped and murdered, is trying to improve Persia's rural police, the undisciplined, isolated officers who patrol villages and outlying districts...
...during the present winter, are still a problem. Wyoming's rising moose population is mooching down on civilization in search of food. One militant moose recently held a group of children imprisoned in a schoolhouse for hours; three other moose had to be shot by a rural mail carrier before they would give him right...
Many years ago, when old Alexander Dumas was traveling through rural England, he stopped at an inn and wanted some mushrooms for his dinner. He could not make himself understood and drew a picture. You probably guessed it! They brought him an umbrella...