Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using radioactive dating methods based on the decay of the isotope carbon 14, scientists have estimated the seeds to be as much as 11,700 years old; the same tests on ancient grain samples found in the Middle East or Latin America show that none are more than 9,500 years old. Thus, says the director of the University of Hawaii expedition. Anthropologist Wilhelm G. Solheim II. Thailand's ancient inhabitants may well have been the world's first farmers...
...payroll, and merchants have responded with a modern Ben Franklin variety store and a new furniture shop. The plant manager applauds the recreational value of country living for his employees, the economics of low rents and wages for his company. Between the towns of Thomas and Putnam, the huge grain elevators of the McNeill Grain Co. reach toward the cloudless sky like a concrete calliope. The early morning sun, filtered through the wheat, gives the highway an eerie brownish-golden cast. One almost expects to see Dorothy and her four friends following the "yellow brick road" westward to the Emerald...
...style that reflects the personality of the coach." The Kansas City Chiefs are a mirror image of both sides of Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince Lombardi's starchiness: $50 a minute is the price of tardiness to any meeting, $50 a pound is the cost of excess fat at Thursday weigh-ins. No mustaches or mutton chops are permitted. Long hair is utterly unthinkable. How does Stram reconcile his own flamboyant wardrobe...
...need to grow twice as much food as we do now in order to adequately feed the earth's 3 billion people. And the population is increasing by 70 million per year. A "grain glut" in the '70s you say. Wait...
...philosophy-Schopenhauer's concepts from The World as Will and Idea, Bishop Berkeley's assertion that existence is dependent upon individual perception; Hume's denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply that he takes reality with a grain of salt. Great events, vast trends, the pompous certainties implied by the French phrase grands mots -all these are not for Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes or can be changed, may not exist...