Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-color printing is aimed at every kind of green thumbsman from penthouse to prairie. It reaches its peak this month, when the industry offers glowing premiums-rosebushes, flowering shrubs, a pruning knife-to those who mail in their seed orders before March 15. Each year also brings a crop of first-time-ever items. Among this year's new offerings...
...first of a bountiful crop of rice, potatoes and beans, estimated at 30% above last year's level, began to appear on grocery shelves, easing Brazil's chronic food shortage and starting stabilization of food prices after years of headlong advance...
Cornell is hardly what you'd call a low-scoring team--in its last game it edged Hamilton 19-0. The team only finished fourth in the Ivy League last year, but this season has a terrific crop of sophomores, including the three Ferguson brothers from Saskatchewan. There isn't a single senior on the varsity...
Since 1959, Cuba's gross national product has dwindled by 15% , the sugar crop has slipped 45% , the country's foreign debt-owed mostly to the Soviet Union-has ballooned to $2 billion. Worse still, Cuba's relations with Moscow are going from bumptious...
Like Noah, Bishop was optimistic that the flood will recede. "I expect a revolt on the part of overburdened libraries, administrations and scholars. Foundations, discouraged by the outcome, will be more chary of demanding publication. Their subsidies may be rather for crop limitation than for production. Literary research will dwell less on the disinterment of dead facts, more on the communication of live ideas." Among the live ideas proposed by Bishop: the literature of travel, exploration, adventure; a study of "TIME style and its effect on undergraduate themes"; an analysis of "the explosion of pornography in the sexy...