Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diggers found images of many more goddesses. All of them are bare-breasted and several resemble Elamite deities. One figure, seated under a tree and framed by sheaves of wheat, apparently represents the goddess of grain; another, surrounded by beasts and sprouting horns, seems to be the patron of animals. In fact, the presence of so many goddesses suggests that the society was a matriarchy...
...newcomers are entering a world that until recently has been a mystery to all but a tiny circle of insiders, one that has its own language (scalper, old crop, new crop, cash grain) and rules. Technically, anyone who buys a future agrees to take delivery of-and pay for -a certain amount of a commodity that can be sent to him anywhere from a day to a year and a half after purchase. That arrangement has given more than one investor nightmares about having 5,000 bushels of wheat or five tons of sugar dumped on his doorstep. In fact...
China's struggle to feed its expanding population has suffered a new setback. Peking announced recently that grain output last year was down 10,000,000 metric tons from a high of 250 million tons in 1971. The reasons for the decline were heavy floods and windstorms in many parts of China and one of the worst droughts in a century in the northern provinces...
Thanks to grain imports ordered from Canada and the U.S., China does not face the acute hunger it did in the early 1960s. Nonetheless, the official journal Red Flag has urged every Chinese to eat one mouthful less each day. "In a country with a large population like ours," said the article, "when a person saves a mouthful of grain a day, he will save a peck in a year, and the whole nation will save up to a hundred million catties [50,000 metric tons] of grain...
...only irritating. One blatant instance of it is his denigrating description of some particularly adamant opposition: "The most determined opponent of the bill when it reached Congress was to be Senator John J. Williams, Republican of Delaware, a chicken farmer." Williams, a U.S. Senator since 1946, once sold grain for chicken feed in his hometown of Millsboro, Del., but to classify a fourth term senior senator as a chicken farmer is surely carrying a grudge...