Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson will be counting on a strong showing by a new crop of freshmen as well as good repeat performances by last year's returning lettermen to take the important meet with the Green this weekend...
...gesture that was strongly supported by the U.S. delegation, wealthy countries were called on to supply 10 million tons of grain to food-short areas for each of the next three years, until the permanent stockpile can be built up. In addition, an early warning system providing world crop information will be set up to give advance notice of probable famines. These programs are to be administered by a new World Food Council, which will report to the U.N. General Assembly and have an executive committee of high-level representatives from 15 to 25 nations...
...large crop of Democratic freshmen there are some aggressive and articulate types who seem likely to be heard from in the new session. They include...
...favorably, except for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. A reserve system would preclude the kind of secrecy-shrouded, bargain-hunting raids on the Western wheat market that have become a hallmark of Soviet trade. The Russians, who guard agricultural intelligence as a state secret, are also hesitant to begin sharing crop information. A high State Department official noted the irony of this ideological role reversal: "We are talking about planning while the Communists are using our old market methods to meet their short-term needs...
...father and entered another. Few economic systems can have been as cruelly deceptive as the one saddled on black Southern sharecroppers. They leased their land from whites, who also paid for the "furnishin' "-feed, fertilizer, tools-they needed to farm. At harvesttime sharecroppers regularly found all their crop payments flowing back into white hands. Thanks to tricky mortgages, their personal possessions often went as well...