As for Viehmann, she was not a peasant but the wife of a tailor.

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Many finds have the ring of folklore: One trove was uncovered in 1910 by a peasant plowing his fields, another when a Ukrainian shepherd boy stepped into a pot of gold.

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Ji Pengfei, the self-educated peasant, was made a diplomat.

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The public sector expanded only in the 1950s, after a century of astonishing economic growth driven by free trade and free markets (from 1850 to 1950, average incomes multiplied eightfold, as a poor peasant society was transformed into one of the world's richest countries).

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She was wearing what used to be called a peasant blouse, with little red bows at the wrists and neck.

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On the other hand, there was Joe, who had come from a peasant life in Russia with his wife and six children.

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With him was another man, also in a black peasant's smock and the dark gray trousers that were almost a uniform in that province, wearing rope-soled shoes and with a carbine slung over his back.

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He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.

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"It was a program only for those who had money, " agreed Salvador Acosta, a peasant who for years struggled to survive by growing yucca and plantains.

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Titian, who came from a peasant community high in the Dolomites close to the Austrian border where the living was always tight, was acutely conscious of his finances.

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