Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was another reason for Shevchenko to defect. TIME has learned that for two years he has been secretly talking to U.S. intelligence officers. In recent weeks he has offered to explain which American agency-presumably either the CIA or the FBI-had been deluded by Soviet agents who fed them "disinformation" prepared by the KGB. According to one source, Shevchenko's price for this interesting secret is about $100,000 a year. If the U.S. should reject his terms, Shevchenko has the alternative of giving similar information to five other nations whose secret services have been in touch...
...converts its own nitrogen from the atmosphere, thanks to a happy symbiosis with guest Rhizobium bacteria in the plant's potato-like tubers. Consequently, it needs no fertilizer and even enriches the soil in which it grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...
...were a bus full of fed-up people. The magical summer heat had revived our fires, for months smothered by three-foot New England snowdrifts, and now we were burning bright and fed up--fed up with waiting, problem sets, deadlines, mortgages, schedules, responsibilities, and most of all, promises. We were out to put all the promises behind us, even as the road to Boston slid back behind us--who needs...
...against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each time they ate the food pellets. While the amount of dieldrin was not great enough to kill short-lived mice, Jones reports in Nature, it was certainly enough, over time, to do in the owls, which fed almost exclusively on what to them were tasty but, alas, tainted rodents...
...Until recently blacks received only the crumbs from the banquet table of American life--but the table was so big that many were fed anyway," Kelsey said...