Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bakeries in Nicosia have closed down for lack of fuel. The wells supplying 3,000 Turkish Cypriots surrounded in Ktima are drying up, and a U.N. tank truck was barred from entering the town with emergency water supplies. In many parts of the island fruit and vegetables are rotting in the fields...
...just livestock, the land is producing vast amounts of wheat and other crops; in the next few years a $50 million irrigation project will transform the arid pampa seca southwest of Buenos Aires into a 200,000-acre region that will eventually produce $60 million worth of fodder, fruit and vegetables annually. There are few regrets for the pampas...
...blind college physics student wants to know what is in a four-part book on quantum mechanics written in Greek, Latin, German and English. A sightless theologian needs to absorb Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man. A farmer must learn the contents of Modern Fruit Science. An aspiring salesman pleads to know The Five Great Rules of Selling...
...that every parent cherishes. Under some particularly trying circumstance, this illusion of omnipotence may "sweep the leader along to his destruction." The trying circumstance in Lee's case was that he was suffering from diarrhea, naively assumed by Southern historians to have been caused by the eating of fruit "in the fertile Pennsylvania countryside," but more probably "it was psychosomatic, caused by his manifested worry over absence of any word for several weeks from the missing Jeb Stuart and his cavalry." His "debilitated physical condition" made Lee "all the more susceptible to psychic influences...
...time he got to San Francisco, Bill Scranton's machine was in full gear. In 48 rooms on three floors of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, scores of eager workers performed their appointed tasks-from drafting speeches to ordering cookie and fruit between-meals snacks for the candidate. A complex communications network had been in stalled-including a 15-circuit phone switchboard, and a special "hot line" system linking hotel headquarters to the Cow Palace convention floor and to two communications trailers parked outside. Code words were used in tele phone conversations to confuse possible eavesdroppers, and the whole headquarters...