Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of all the American people, John Kennedy has a rare talent for blending in with Americans of all kinds. Last week, attending the National Football Foundation's annual banquet in Manhattan, he posed for pictures with a crop of 1961 gridiron stars, fitted in so perfectly that it was hard to tell who were the halfbacks and who was the President. Moving on to the convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, he puffed a cigar with the best of the businessmen, could easily have passed as a prosperous Boston paper-box tycoon. Again, at a roisterous meeting...
Then there is the required reading, beginning each morning with the 30 or 40 pages of Hsinhua (the Communist New China News Agency) and the daily Peking radio transcript. It is turgid, tendentious and tedious. But the attention that the Chinese Communists give to Albania, or to confessions of crop failures in one province or another, provide clues to explore. A small colony of experts from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Japan does the same job in Hong Kong, and there is much pooling of information. The U.S. consulate assembles a massive and useful Survey of the Mainland...
State denied that there was any connection between Tito's attack and approval of the deal but offered little positive explanation of the latest gift. The 500,000-ton shipment, worth about $30 million, will be sent to Yugoslavia as a surplus crop under terms of a law that provides for payment in local currency rather than in dollars. Under this law, Tito has already received some $64 million worth of agricultural commodities this year, raising his total haul in U.S. assistance since 1949 beyond the $2 billion mark-more than Belgium, Norway or the Philippines has received...
...kanpus, who in the past had been the grim overseers of the communes, were now forbidden to "arbitrarily set output targets, mechanically arrange crop acreage, or rigidly introduce technical measures." As a final insult, the kanpus were told to seek guidance from "wise old peasants...
...Shanghai, where failure of the cotton crop has paralyzed textile mills, unemployed workers are being used as street cleaners. And it is becoming hard even to die. In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served. Other corpses must be buried in paper cartons, though some families scrape together enough wood to make triangular coffins, saving on corners...