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Born Jimmy Lee Swaggart in Ferriday, Louisiana, on March 15, 1935, Swaggart was the son of sharecroppers and cousin to both future rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and future country music star Mickey Gilley.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
1 July 2025 -
Miles Caton plays their young cousin Sammie, a sharecropper and the pastor’s son, who has a deep connection to music.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2025
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My own life as a dismally low-ranking yeoman began just out of high school.—
Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2025
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The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, bill sponsors Del. Aletheia McCaskill and Sen. C. Anthony Muse, Speaker of the House Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson completed a yeoman’s job in getting this bill passed.—
Robert Turner,
Baltimore Sun,
2 June 2025
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Celebrating the progress made and giving thanks, block party attendees watched the unveiling of two sculptures created by artist Kenya Moffett-Garner — two massive sculpted planters, featuring a man and woman and filled with flowers.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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If your outdoor space is in need of some TLC, now is your time to load up on decorative planters, string lights, and patio furniture sets — Amazon’s Fourth of July sale is on with patio and garden deals for up to 54 percent off.—
Emily Weaver,
People.com,
4 July 2025
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Matías Litvak – An Argentine cultivator and activist based in Israel, Litvak oversaw cannabis R&D at Bar-Ilan University’s grow facilities.—
Javier Hasse,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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To make their product, the food company’s scientists collect living cells from Pacific salmon and grow them in cell cultivators that mimic the inside of a wild fish—controlling factors like temperature, pH and nutrients, per their website.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 June 2025
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Adams, meanwhile, may be fatally unpopular, damaged by both public corruption charges, dropped by President Donald Trump in what many Democrats saw as deeper corruption; and by a perception that his hand is not firmly on the tiller.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
25 June 2025
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India emerges as an example of the downside of tiller reforms’ incrementalism.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The company is still keen to win more sliced and shredded consumers, and has new flavors like Carolina reaper and zesty ranch in store for next year.—
Brooks Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2025
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Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2024
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Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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The infamous East Riverside slide can dump 50 feet of concrete-thick debris and has taken the lives of three plowmen—in 1970, 1978, and 1992—as well as a preacher and his two daughters in 1963, and two men and most of their team of mules in 1883.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
23 Feb. 2017
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In response to national attention in the late 1960s to widespread hunger and malnutrition in other areas of the country, such as among tenant farmers in the rural South, a limited food stamps program was expanded.—
Tracy Roof,
The Conversation,
6 July 2025
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His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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“Crofter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofter. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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