Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide-ranging as the human imagination. The luminous metallic material that helps in the docking of spacecraft in darkness may eventually free motorists from the need to fumble for their car locks at night. The need for manageable space foods has given impetus to the improvement of freeze-dried fruit, freeze-dried coffee and food concentrates...
FORBIDDEN fruit always tastes sweetest, and that is one reason why U.S. travelers in the Orient have often been tempted to buy goods made in Red China. Not until last week did the State Department belatedly drop its total prohibition against such imports and declare that returning tourists may bring back $100 worth of Chinese merchandise (see THE NATION). The dispensation delighted shopkeepers in Singapore and along Hong Kong's sleazy Upper and Lower Lascar Row ("Cat Street"). In some of the larger Peking-controlled emporiums in Hong Kong, English-speaking shopgirls stood like smiling spring flowers beneath...
Forbidden Fruit. Psychiatrists and other physicians who favor a different approach consider attempts to enforce prohibition of marijuana to be self-defeating; such efforts, they argue, give the drug the appeal of forbidden fruit. They believe, moreover, that the imposition of penalties for possession, or even use, makes criminals of ordinary young people who are carried away by a simple urge for experimentation. These are moderate reformers, who do not advocate abolition of laws against importation or sale of marijuana, and who offer no defense whatever for LSD or other "hard" drugs...
...buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians were rotting by the roadside because Chinese trucks were not sent for them-as they are not being sent anywhere in Malaysia...
...field, and his dog, at one with the environment. (In contrast, the few long shots of the Marys are always chosen to emphasize the unreality of their lives; for instances, one shot is of Mary standing in the middle of a field by a tree full of obviously plastic fruit). Hopelessly fragmented, the Marys cannot relate to a whole environment--the farmer doesn't hear their calls. Later, a group of cyclists pass between them as if they weren't there...