farm laborer
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Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
His grandfather, a field worker from Mexicali, survived the 1974 crash of a farm laborer bus that plunged into an irrigation canal near Blythe, killing 19.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Her beloved grandfather — who was born enslaved in Virginia and, once freed, became a farm laborer and the first Anderson to settle in Philadelphia — died the following year.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021
The body of an immigrant farm laborer was found in an Oregon nursery.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2021
Grandfather Harry Tallis was the son of a farm laborer who, for some reason, had changed his name from Cartwright and whose birth and marriage were not recorded.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
