Word: geo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia, reports of the new rice sounded like an invitation to a feast. It was tough and fast-growing, able to root almost anywhere and twice as bountiful as ordinary strains. Crossbred from a common tropical rice called peta (meaning seed) and an ancient Chinese variety known as dee-geo-woo-gen (brown-tipped, sharp-legged thing), IR8, as scientists tagged the hybrid, was promptly-and prematurely-labeled a miracle...
...Rene Galand, French Edward Gulick, His. Jean Harrison, Bio. Walter Houghton, Eng. Gabriele Jackson, Eng. Owen Jander, Music Florence McCulloch, French Eleanor McLaughlin, His. Jeanette McPherrin, French Joan Melvin, Bio. Genworth Mofett, Art Torsten Norvig, Math Barry Phillips, Eng. David Pritzker, Math Ruth Anna Putnam, Phil. Jerome Regnier, Geo. Margaret Robinson, Art Patsy Sampson, Psy. Alice Schafer, Math Patricia Spacks, Eng. George Stambolian, French Richard Wallace...
...mere transitional figure. But in Russia's painful move from a malevolent monolith to a more responsible member of world society, he was essential. His Cold War contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down from the Cuban missile crisis after rashly getting into...
...GEO.: Sally, there's one question I want...
...GEO.: Do you think your roommate is busy next weekend...