Word: fruitings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acquisition of piledriving fullback Larry Csonka was rare and refreshing fruit to the Giants' lackluster ground game, while Arnsparger shored up the defense with a linebacking corps of Brad Van Pelt, Pat Kelly and Brian Hughes...
...care for Vietnamese refugees. He has long been a driving force for comprehensive health care insurance, which may finally be adopted under a new Democratic administration. This summer, he fought tirelessly in committee rooms and on the Senate floor to eliminate tax loopholes, an effort which may also bear fruit in the next session of Congress. For acts of progressive leadership and for his liberal voting record, Kennedy deserves strong support...
Died. Leopold Ruzicka, 89, Swiss chemist whose research into the makeup of hydrocarbons won him the 1939 Nobel Prize; in Zurich. Ruzicka was the first to synthesize the male hormone, testosterone, and he identified the various chemical compounds that produce the distinctive flavor of the raspberry. The artificially fruit-flavored foods that abound today are a result of his findings...
...relentless progress towards a controlled creation has brought us beyond test-tube babies to DNA-making; we don't even need the sperm and the egg any more. Careful analysis, research and thought have unraveled the fundamental mystery of human life. Soon our children won't be merely the fruit of our desires, but of conscious intellect. "I think, therefore I am" takes on a new dimension...
Friends' Fruit. The Justice Department boasts that since 1970 its prosecutors have convicted more than 1,000 public officials-including one Vice President, two U.S. Senators, six Congressmen and one Governor. There may be more. Earlier this year, Assistant Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, chief of Justice's criminal division, set up a new Public Integrity Section. Drawing on the expertise of Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers, antitrust experts and Internal Revenue Service investigators, the Public Integrity Section is ready to help federal prosecutors anywhere in the country with the complexities of nailing corrupt public officials...