1.   An impoverished old Virginia farming town, Surry had long been a place where blacks outnumbered whites, yet a black had never held elective office.

2.   And for centuries after the Spaniards came, it was a thriving cattle and farming town blessed with fertile land and folklore.

3.   In farming towns you found spoiled land, demoralized workers, broken-down equipment, wheat rotting in the open.

4.   Ms. Rolle was born in Pompano Beach, Fla., a retirement community that was once a bucolic farming town with the character of the Deep South.

5.   Standing under a warm summer sun after mowing a wide lawn in this Salinas Valley farming town, Lalo Torres wiped a line of sweat from his face.

6.   The few civilians who remained in this tiny ethnic Albanian farming town on Saturday blamed Serb soldiers, who occupy the nearby town of Malisheva.

7.   A modest prairie farming town, Vulcan was named after the Roman god of fire.

8.   Statues draw tourists to Kansas farming town.

9.   Once a sleepy island dotted with fishing and farming towns, Chiloe is now a southern development hub.

10.   The attack took place on Tuesday near this KwaZulu-Natal province farming town, Nortje said.