Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With at least 15,000 Soviet military personnel now in Egypt and most of the country's cotton crop earmarked for Russia in payment for aid, Sadat could have a difficult time escaping the bear's hug. Nonetheless, he considers the newly arrived planes, tanks, guns and missiles to be essential elements in a defensive line, established with Russian advice, that runs all the way along the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal and up the Nile Valley...
...Buddhist and Shinto religions but in its history and geography. The mountainous nation has always been a tough place to scratch out a living. The peasant who did not labor hard simply starved, partly because medieval lords took as much as 80% of his rice crop in taxes. Necessity was transmuted into virtue: the busy man is a good man. To this day, it is considered respectful to greet superiors by saying, "O-iso-gashii desho [You must be in an honorably busy state of affairs...
...plant 1,000 acres of corn, 400 of soybeans and the remainder in hay and oats. Over the year they will fatten 800 cows and 1,500 hogs for market. Says Dick Walters: "If one thing fails, you have an opportunity to balance out your loss." Walters' crop mix is typical. He usually grows corn on a particular field for two years, then switches to soybeans for a year. Gone is the ritual slopping of hogs; Erv's animals are fed carefully calibrated mixtures of corn and protein automatically through ducts that connect his silos with the feeding...
...with the drug: Grinspoon's analysis of cannabis chemistry explains how different types of dope-grown in different climates, harvested in different circumstances-may induce different physiological responses. The stoned experience will then have a great deal of variance due to the chemical composition of weed from a particular crop...
...lost in the shuffle again once his current vogue has passed, it is important that the lasting qualities of his work-the genius and sheer power that mark his writing as some of the best of this century-not be overlooked. Happily, the first of this year's crop of Fitzgerald books, Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, does not sell its subject short...