Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blight (Helminthosporium maydis), though not yet so severe as last year's attack, has now spread on its wind-borne spores to 31 states. Flourishing in warm, wet weather, the pathogen reduces the size of kernels, weakens the stalks and rots the ears. Because farmers have enough feed grain to last for nearly a year, however, the blight probably will not noticeably affect the price of such foods as meat, milk, cheese and poultry...
...Defense Minister Lin Piao and the other moderates who run China these days that the Chinese economy moves ahead only when Maoism, with its disruptive emphasis on "struggle" and its relative indifference to rates of production, is throttled. Last year China harvested a record 240 million tons of grain; many more such crops will be needed if Peking is ever to feed its population (which is still growing at 2% a year) and industrialize as well. Thus the prospect is for an extended pause in the effort to remake the Chinese mind-a prospect that might please the masses...
...their government does not deem it too decadent, to whip up sweet cakes with U.S.-made mixers and enjoy the marvels of American household appliances. Chinese office buildings and department stores will be able to install American elevators, escalators, furnaces and air-conditioning equipment. In a bid for U.S. grain sales to China, Nixon annulled the old "50% clause," which in the past has discouraged U.S. wheat sales to Communist countries by forcing American growers to ship at least half of their goods in high-priced, noncompetitive U.S. ships...
...Esther consumes a pound or so at a magazine luncheon, paving her plate with chicken slices and smearing on the high-priced spread. But she knows that the whole enterprise is phony, that the girls are smug and dumb and, most important, that she is going against her own grain by participating at all. Before heading back to Massachusetts, she flings all her expensive, uncomfortable new clothes from the roof of her hotel...
...field of grain-a city...