Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wuhan, where the steel mills have slowed to part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive...
...three party leaders have been more concerned to cultivate grass roots than to shape ringing national issues. In the wheat-growing West, Prairie Lawyer Diefenbaker has made hay by swinging a $362 million grain sale to hard-pressed Red China. By devaluating the Canadian dollar last June, the Tory government has helped spur exports 4.8% and shave Canada's deficit-of-payment imbalance. Unemployment has dropped to 318,000 (4.9% of the labor force). But on the debit side, Diefenbaker has failed to show how his government intends to meet the new challenge of world trade-particularly that posed...
...huge bathtub, with its edge at the water's surface). The open end of the Boatbath is pulled closed; pellets of calcium hypochloride (swimming-pool chlorine) are dropped in. Thus the boat is floating in a bath of chlorinated water, which inhibits the growth of both barnacles and grass. A dose of four pellets is enough to keep a 29-ft. hull growth-free for at least one month, provided that the Boatbath is not opened...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Playing soccer on wet grass in gym shoes is like trying to eat soup with a fork--it doesn't work too well. But Dunster still managed to eke out a 2-0 victory over Branford, Yale's intra-mural soccer champion...
...Pieces of Gold. Throughout all this, the Queen serenely continued her tour. In the northern territories, tribal chiefs put on dazzling ceremonial durbars for the royal visitors. At Tamale, muscular, nearly nude warriors in bikini-brief grass skirts performed the End of the Harvest dance. The most spectacular ceremony was the Ashanti durbar laid on in Kumasi before 35,000 people, including some 150 major and minor chiefs. Host for the ritual was the Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, King of Ashanti and the most important chief in all Ghana...