Word: bolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make soom. 'ad to get the boll on the coort," Stolle replied, then slumped, almost dejectedly, into a lounge chair and sipped from a cupful of beer...
...pestborne killers, typhus, encephalitis and, particularly, malaria. Its mastery over the mosquitoes that carry malaria has undoubtedly spared millions of people from death and debilitating infection. Equally potent in saving crops, it has almost doubled the yield from U.S. cotton fields in the past two decades by controlling the boll weevil. Even the Swedes, who have decided to ban the chemical, readily acknowledge its effectiveness. In 1948 they awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry to Swiss Chemist Paul Müller for his discovery of its "miraculous" capacity for destroying insects...
...most famous of the Delta Blues singer-guitarists are Robert Johnson, Son House and Skip James. These men played unamplified steel string guitar and sang about everything from bad women to Boll Weevils and droughts. Many of the songs of these people are sung by such contemporary supergroups as Cream, who have done Johnson's "Four Until Late," and "Crossroads" and James' "I'm So Glad." This Blues style reached its peak of popularity in the 1920's and 30's. Though many of the Blues men of this era are dead, their music was revived in the late fifties...
...insect species, Williams points out that other juvenile hormone-like chemicals can be used in the same way to sterilize a wide variety of insect pests. "The day may be near at hand," he says, "when we can do in individual insect pests such as the housefly, mosquito and boll weevil...
Postwar German fiction has its mea culpa school, its black-humor crowd and its how-did-it-happen-to-us hand wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help...