Word: clue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has five leaves, grows wild over nuch of the U.S. and is so prized by users round the world that certain varieties sell in unprocessed form for as much as $2,000 an ounce? One clue: it now faces an embargo because concerned Government officials are about to cut out flourishing traffic in the plant between the U.S. and the Far East. Portions of the description might apply to marijuana, heroin or cocaine, but the only product that meets all specifications is ginseng...
Even to the untrained eye, it must be clear that the true vanner, the compleat vanner, the certifiable vanaddict, is up to much more than has yet been figured out. But what? It may be that a clue lurks in some of the little-noticed paradoxes that glimmer on the very surface of the rites of vanning. One of these is that, in essence, to van is to get away from it all while going to great lengths to take it all with you. Another can be glimpsed in the strange fact that the vanner drives long distances to destinations...
...Cairo's view, Gaddafi's ultimate target was Sadat himself. The first real clue that something was afoot came two months ago, when Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy returned home from Moscow after an unsuccessful mission to improve the cool relations between Egypt and the Soviet Union. Fahmy had protested the Libyan military buildup; the Soviets had bluntly told him that it was none of Cairo's business...
...anything, the author seems to have preferred the emergency to the old-style Gandhianism of Morarji Desai, now the Prime Minister. The real crisis, writes Naipaul sadly, is neither political nor economic, but that of a decaying civilization whose "only hope lies in further swift decay." There is no clue as to the shape of the approaching apocalypse; only the chill warning that "the past has to be seen to be dead, or the past will kill...
Land, in a lecture entitled "Process as Reality," told the crowd of about 650 that research in photography and optics has given society "a clue to the solution of the principal metaphysical question" of how man relates to his environment...