Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already deep. In Tokyo and to the south, an early frost sparkled on the richly tinted autumn leaves. But as the trees shed their leaves, Japanese shed their kimonos, one by one, to sell for food. They even devised an ironic name for their wretched existence: takenoko, after the bamboo sprout which peels, layer by layer...
...acres of the Atkins Foundation include a palm garden, marsh plants, cactus garden, orchids, bamboo and over 9,000 species of other plants. Roads, paths, bridges and dams on the stream flowing through the area have been constructed. Dr. Kevorkin and his superintendent are the only Americans now working at Soledad; the rest of the employees are Cubans. The Atkins Foundation was the first to introduce teak to Cuba and has succeeded in producing better strains of sugar cane through selection and breeding. A terrific hurricane in 1935 wreaked great damage to the trees in the Soledad Gardens but foresight...
...imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form 10% of the population, held 88% of the land. All adult male natives must carry passes-some of them as many as ten passes at a time...
...still they came, the red-legged Schistocerca paranensis, in fresh waves from Argentina. Farmers tried to scare them off by waving bamboo sticks, beating drums, blowing sirens, sending out little dogs with bells around their necks.* Others tried shoveling up all young locusts still unable to fly, piling them in fenced-off areas and burying or burning them...
Dingdong Chimes. At twilight on his first day in Bali, a flock of pigeons circled over McPhee, trailing behind them a shining rain of silver music. Tiny bells were tied to the pigeons' feet and bamboo whistles were attached to their tails...