Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tasaday have survived in their primitive state chiefly by gathering rather than growing food, by utilizing stones as scrapers, choppers and pounders, and by fashioning containers, knives and other implements out of bamboo. Their chief food is natak, the pith of wild palms. They also eat wild yams, rattan and bamboo shoots, small fish, crabs and tadpoles that they catch with their hands. Through contact with Dafal, the Tasaday have learned to trap birds in a sticky substance; civet cats, rats, monkeys and pigs are taken in primitive traps. Fires are still set by rubbing pieces of wood together...
WORKMEN had all but finished festooning the reviewing stand atop the mammoth vermilion-pillared Gate of Heavenly Peace overlooking Peking's Tienanmen Square. The spectators' stand had been built and bamboo scaffolding prepared for the traditional giant portraits of Mao Tse-tung and Lenin. Squadrons of military and civilian marchers were rehearsing for the biggest event on the Chinese political calendar, the National Day parade, scheduled...
...went pretty much according to script until a screaming band of students charged 80 policemen manning a checkpoint on a dirt road about a mile from the center of the action. Crying "korose!" (kill!), the students threw scores of Molotov cocktails, then worked over the cops with steel pipes, bamboo staves and nail-studded sticks. Some of the riot police, who do not carry guns in Japan, fled. But 30 were left slumped and bleeding on the ground. Three soon died, one with a ruptured heart and two with shattered skulls...
From his childhood years. Skinner was mechanically inclined. He built roller-skate scooters, steerable wagons, rafts, water pistols from lengths of bamboo, and "from a discarded water boiler a steam cannon with which I could shoot plugs of potato and carrot over the houses of our neighbors." He also devised a flotation system to separate green from ripe elderberries, which he used to sell from door to door. Although his attempts to build a glider and a perpetual motion machine ended in failure, his innovative tinkering was to pay off handsomely in the laboratory in later years...
...leap of 10 ft. His ambition in life is to clear the bar at 12 ft. After World War II, during which he managed 10 ft. 6 in. outside a castle in Germany, Frank becomes a balding fixture at all the local meets back home. Competing with a bamboo pole years after everyone else has switched to fiber glass, he achieves his goal at age 45. But the pole snaps and Frank is skewered to death on its splinters...