Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this shift, schools such as Yale and Princeton had an advantage over Harvard; their new crop of ambitious young women soon become alumnae, grateful for their entree into the elites of business or the professions. Presumably as good alums they share their fortunes with their alma mater...
Experts believe that continued synthesis of plant hormones my someday enable man to control completely the frequency and size of crop production...
Beginning with their arrest in October 1976, members of the radical Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, have been held responsible for everything from crop failures to the shortage of sidewalk cafes. Many of the accusations are justified. But in China now, when a foreigner mentions the Gang of Four, it often happens that the Chinese with whom he is talking will hold up five fingers and say, "Ah, yes, the Gang of Four." The small subversive joke reflects what most Chinese accept: that Mao not only permitted but encouraged the activities of his wife...
...Surveying practice from a high tower overlooking two full-size fields, one grass and one AstroTurf, he notes every detail. Says All-America Tackle Marty Lyons: "He's seen things in me that I didn't know were there." Adds Linebacker Barry Krauss, another of the latest crop of Alabama All-Americas (37 so far): "I love him. The biggest thrill is that I can walk in and talk to him, and he knows and cares about...
...which Carter considered "reasonable and predictable." But then price boosts speeded up from Jan. 1 onward far faster than anyone had expected. The 1978 rise of 9.5% compares with 6.8% last year. The increase was particularly unnerving because there was no obvious, overwhelming cause-no oil crisis or crop failure or wild speculative boom. Rapid inflation came to be recognized not as an aberration but as a terrifying built-in tendency, a consequence of too many demands being put by too many people on a limited amount of national wealth. In an April speech, Carter put the point...