Word: flax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oddly, what first spurred U.S. interest in Helianthus was the emergence in the 1960s of latex-base paints. This undermined the market for paints based on linseed oil, which is made from flax. Companies that processed flaxseed had to find another oil to keep their machinery busy. Cargill Inc., the huge Minneapolis grain dealer, in 1966 dispatched a researcher to get some sunflower seeds from the Soviet Union, which is the leading producer. At the same time, Cargill and rival Honeymead Products set out to persuade farmers to try the new crop. That was not easy; the companies...
...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...
...almost 17 years of "retirement," Washington built up his inherited estate, Mount Vernon, and bought large areas of western land (present total: close to 35,000 acres). He also bought additional slaves to carry out his experiments in growing wheat, barley, hemp and flax, in building fisheries and even in trying to breed buffaloes as beasts of burden. Enjoying his rewards, Washington ordered only the best of carriages from London "in the newest taste, with steel springs, green unless any other color is more in vogue." His favorite sport: fox hunting. His favorite delicacies: oysters, watermelons, Madeira wine...
When we last left Margo Flax, middle-aged divorcee, her frantic love for a younger man had caused her to undergo a facelift. That, to be sure, was nothing spectacular for the script of All My Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas. Yet when kindly Dr. Julien removed the bandages from Margo's uplifted face before 10 million viewers this week, the postoperative black eyes and discolored skin thus exposed were in very living color. It turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years...