The sharecropper's hardscrabble life. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A hardscrabble farm. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers. From Dictionary.com.
Oct. 12: 'Chronicles, Vol. 1': Bob Dylan's memoir (!) -- recalls his hardscrabble early days in the Village. From Wordnik.com. [UP NEXT] Reference
This area was sparsely settled and life was "hardscrabble," as it were. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
They are 'hardscrabble' (as Bubba might say) in that they are functional places for the poorer citizens of this fair town. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring Mexico's Markets] Reference
Other plants have survived in a kind of hardscrabble, determined way, like rangy women in. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
After recounting her 'hardscrabble' Texan childhood in Cherry, Karr continues the story of her life and battle with alcoholism in. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Mama: Literary Mama Home] Reference
In these hardscrabble times, gems can be a tough sell. From Wordnik.com. [Luxury For a Little Less] Reference
The lessons of his hardscrabble youth have stuck with him. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Sun Shadows Football Great's Twilight Years] Reference
It's a hardscrabble life in some of those parts of the Midwest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference
It's a message that hits home in this hardscrabble part of China. From Wordnik.com. [In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity] Reference
He came from a hardscrabble ranch 24 miles from the end of the payment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007] Reference
It is 8: 45 on a raw spring morning in a hardscrabble section of the Bronx. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle Over Size] Reference
It is a working-class neighborhood and some hardscrabble areas in the city. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009] Reference
His hardscrabble story and pugnacious style match the Democrats 'defiant mood. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEW POWER PLAYERS] Reference
The group's broadsides appealed to the locals 'hardscrabble sense of fairplay. From Wordnik.com. [Homophobia] Reference
He brings his hardscrabble squad into Tuscaloosa knowing the odds are against him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009] Reference
That would be the smallest growth since way back in the grim, hardscrabble days of … 1933?. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Bad News] Reference
King remembers his hardscrabble upbringing in Mississippi as years of mystery and sensuality. From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
He's a private man from a hardscrabble background that has shaped his views on public service. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2007] Reference
A geologist by training, Wen spent his early career in the hardscrabble inland province of Gansu. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Technocrat] Reference
Allied soldiers are dying on Godforsaken hardscrabble hillsides far from home for everyone's benefit. From Wordnik.com. [So Many Documents, So Little Revelation] Reference
Men and women raised in hardscrabble country can spot a phony quicker than a squirrel can spot an acorn. From Wordnik.com. [A Memo to Senator Obama] Reference
Over time that tenacity enabled Mendocinos to carve out a decent living from the hardscrabble environment. From Wordnik.com. [A Province That Works] Reference
His accent was American, originally from some hardscrabble place far from the Upper West Side of Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard Way]
Her parents were hardscrabble Okies, forever haunted by the Dust Bowl poverty that had defined their early lives. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings] Reference
Weirton, a hardscrabble steel town nestled in a narrow reach of the Ohio River valley, is redolent of Kennedy history. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Hopes Along The Bus Tour] Reference
Luocheng, for example, is a hardscrabble hamlet where garlic farmers plant on average only .02 of a hectare of land each. From Wordnik.com. [All Shook Up] Reference
And while many of the lyrics evoked images of hardscrabble backcountry, the music it inspired couldn't have sounded sweeter. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Draper: Yim Yames, Ben Sollee And Daniel Martin Moore Lead Brooklyn Through Appalachia And New Orleans With Their Appalachian Voices Tour] Reference
FRANKEN: Even though this hardscrabble Pennsylvania area is instinctively patriotic and conservative, it's two-to-one Democratic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference
Hogan carried demons from a hardscrabble youth that saw his father, a failed blacksmith, commit suicide when Ben was just six years old. From Wordnik.com. [Open Season] Reference
Perhaps hardest hit is hardscrabble Henan province, whose population is thought to account for a full 10 percent of China's newly jobless. From Wordnik.com. [Going Back To the Farm] Reference
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