Word: ant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese discovered an unsuspected delight (even Mao finally did) in the mobility and openness of American society, the antithesis of China's own introspective and hierarchical world. In the late 1970s, many Americans are inclined to forget their view of the Chinese, during the Korean War, as a menacing ant-people in quilted jackets swarming across the Yalu River and brainwashing American innocents...
Palmer constructed an artificial burrow with viewing glasses on either side like a child's ant farm. Then he introduced several female beetles, plus a single horned male. For hours he watched as the little bugs burrowed, scrounged for food and copulated. But the male never used his horns...
...Canton, China's southernmost big city, the commonest point of entry and sole destination of many Foreign Friends. The Tung Fang is a bustling, 2,000-room place with a new air-conditioned whig. The rooms ($12.50 for a double) are larger, more comfortably furnished, mattressed and ant-less. At the Tung Fang it is even possible to obtain a few ice cubes, and the laundry service is Chinese-immaculate and cheap (a shut well ironed for about 50). The hotel has also recognized the F.F.'s paramount problem: What to do after 9 p.m.? Its cavernous eighth...
...Portugal has a new manager," exclaimed Walter Marques, a director of the Bank of Portugal, last week. So it had. President António Ramalho Eanes had ended a two-week-long government crisis by tapping his favorite industrial technocrat, Consulting Engineer Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 55, to follow Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares as Premier...
...discovered that they love it every bit as much as people in Peoria do. So Green Giant joined with a cooperative of 7,000 farmers in the South of France to raise and process the stuff. This year the combine will sell almost 1 million cases of Géant Vert corn throughout Europe...