Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showpiece of the new system is the 4,500-acre estate (wine, vegetables, citrus fruit) formerly owned by Henri Borgeaud, once the richest man in Algeria. After he fled to France last year, his 1,800 peasants and their families burned down the bidonville (shantytown) where they had huddled in squalor for generations, and moved into their former master's dwellings. The wine presses and bottling machinery are in good order and ready to process the bumper grape harvest expected this month, although ex-Owner Borgeaud took the formula for his red wine with him to France...
Kissenger was convinced in 1951 that the generation reaching positions of leadership vitally needed a chance to escape purely professional concerns and purely nationalistic attitudes. His idea bore fruit in the foundation of the Seminar. Each summer since 1951 the program has brought these young leaders to Harvard (all expenses paid), where for eight weeks they both study and experience the unfamiliar reality of American life...
...popular BBC television satire show, That Was the Week That Was, opened fire at Hilton with a mock Bible lesson: "Brethren, in the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the earth and there was no iced water. Then Hilton said: "Let the earth bring forth Hiltons yielding fruit after their kind. And it came to pass that Hiltons covered the face of the earth and there was a great flood of iced water, and the darkness was greater than it was in the beginning...
...beloved back-country capital, Brasília, the U.S. is to blame for not delivering as much aid as it seemed to have promised. "It would have been better to have had silence," said he, "than to have spread seeds of hope that will never grow and bear fruit." As presently constituted, Kubitschek went on, the Alliance is little more than a label. "I protest against using the name Alianza as a label for projects of all sorts, some of which had already been put into operation before the creation of the Alliance and which have no creative purpose...
...future and are confident that old habits die hard, tobaccomen are hedging by diversifying their interests. U.S. Tobacco now makes candy too. Philip Morris has bought out Burma-Shave, Clark Chewing Gum and American Safety Razor (Personna, Pal, Gem). R. J. Reynolds has gone into several lines from fruit punch to packaging...