61.   The students spruce up the gardens, survey solar panels installed in the village and also discover the downside to village life.

62.   The well had been the communal center of village life, the place where gossip was exchanged and village values reinforced.

63.   Three gossipy witch-like crones perched in a tree observe the village life and comment critically on the day-to-day goings-on.

64.   Unlike more sweeping development plans, the campaign against genital cutting focuses on one particular custom that is not essential to African village life.

65.   Village life is disintegrating throughout much of the former Soviet world, and youngsters are grabbing any chance they can find to save themselves.

66.   Village life is doomed.

67.   Village life has always been regarded as the grim repository of the Russian soul.

68.   We had been attracted to the idea of village life, but Haslemere seemed too small and too isolated for our teen-aged daughters.

69.   Without husbands to protect them, they lost their connection to community, which forms the bedrock of Rwandan village life.

70.   Perhaps refugees might carry the equipment home where it would improve village life, too.