Word: australia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Western Europe continued to accumulate huge surpluses of vital foodstuffs...
...starfish which prey on the coral animals that build up the reefs. Because there are now so many people on the earth, they are now picking up enough tritons so that the coral reefs are crumbling. And after a while most of those islands and parts of Australia are going to be washed away...
...Born in Australia, Lee cut his teeth covering "the everyday humble-bumble of police courts," worked briefly for an encyclopedia but never got much beyond "Fleas, Performing." He believes that writers of fiction and poetry often give a truer picture of this world than sociologists, historians, scientists and politicians. "After all," he says, "who thinks of Queen Victoria in terms of Gladstone or the warehouse full of bureaucratic bilge? No. We think in terms of Dickens, as today will be thought of in terms of Koestler, Auden, Mailer and Waugh...
...first his manager claimed that he was just feverish from some bug he picked up in Australia, but now it's official: love has finally come to Tiny Tim. An impetuous swain, the unearthly falsetto couldn't wait to tell reporters about his betrothal to Vicki Budinger, 17, and thereby robbed Johnny Carson of a promised exclusive on the Tonight Show. Still, Carson got to preside over the presentation of a diamond ring to "Miss Vicki" and signed up the lovers for a network wedding on Christmas Day. As Tiny tells it, he first met Vicki last June...
Years later in Australia, Muggeridge came to a harrowingly personal perception of the "tragic-You." He was at a sheepshearing. "It quite often happened that the mechanical shears drew blood. The sight agitated me abnormally, the blood so red against the wool so soft and white. Why was the sight somehow familiar? My mind went back . . . to being washed in the blood of the lamb. That was it: the sacrificial lamb, Agnus...