Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mekong Delta, where 80% of South Viet Nam's rice is grown, seven out of ten families were tenants, paying 30% or more of their income to the landlords for their land, seed and the use of a buffalo. Typical of the tenants was Tran Van Cau, 42, a farmer in the Delta village of Tan Loc. For ten years, Cau had tilled a small 4½-acre tract; he paid rent first to a local landlord, then for six years to the Viet Cong, then to the original landlord, who moved back after government troops "pacified" the village...
Across the vast, hot stretches of flat, brown delta, which awaits the life-giving monsoons in late May, there is a state of unease. Mutual distrust is pervasive. It is no longer sufficient...
...institutional parts of journalism have also been slow to change. This year, in a belated gesture, the Pulitzer Prize journalism jurors will include women for the first time-six of them out of 45. Two years ago, Sigma Delta Chi, the 63-year-old national journalism society, invited women to join, and so far about 3,000 have signed on. Fourteen months later the National Press Club in Washington, after much external protest and internal agonizing, admitted women for the first time since the club was founded in 1908. But the Gridiron Club, which fancies itself the most distinguished assemblage...
...speech by Chisholm at the annual dinner of Phi Delta Kappa, an organization at the Graduate School of Education, on April 23. Saunders said the dinner is being given in honor of women. (The local chapter has pulled out of the national organization because it does not admit women...
Other businesses exploited the faddish fascination. Delta Airlines took out newspaper ads written in Chinese. Books about China sold briskly. The Harvard Co-op in Cambridge was offering do-it-yourself acupuncture kits with diagrams of the body's critical points-but without the needles...