Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tubular Fiberglas rods, almost impervious to water damage, are available at less than a third the price of laminated bamboo...
...Department of Defense by Manhattan Drs. Lawrence E. Hinkle and Harold G. Wolff-based on hundreds of intensive studies of escaped and repatriated prisoners from Eastern Europe and China and with former Red inquisitors who have "come over"-showed that modern techniques of political persuasion behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains are simply an extension of time-honored methods used by cops and thought-controllers for centuries. The few refinements recently added are probably the result of studying past experience, not of applying Pavlov. But in the battle for his own mind, Psychiatrist Sargant has surrendered to Pavlov without...
Back in the 16th century a Chinese scholar named Wan-Hu lashed 47 black-powder rockets to a bamboo frame, clambered aboard the contraption, and as 47 servants lit the fuses, so goes the legend, went on history's first rocket ride. Last week in Wall Street, the stocks of the modern rocket riders were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past...
...Bamboo Swords. Intent on destroying the foundations of Japanese militarism. General Douglas MacArthur after World War II not only stripped the Emperor of his divinity, but banned movies "glorifying war," prohibited such samurai sports as kyujutsu (archery) and kendo (fencing with bamboo swords), and saddled Japan with a constitution renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
Confused and humiliated by their defeat, millions of Japanese for a time accepted the victor's thesis that their warlike past was something to be ashamed of. But today, all over Japan, bamboo swords once again thud on steel helmets...