Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golden wheat can grow tall and strong in the deep (200 ft.) black topsoil in the valleys of central India, but the wheat has little chance against the predatory kans grass. For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail. With less & less yield from each sowing, the peasant would at last abandon his kans-infested wheatfield, blaming his ill luck on Saturn, considered an evil planet by Hindus. Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands...
...again; receipts in the nation's stockyards climbed back almost to normal. The big meat packers were beginning to slaughter again, though still less than 50% of the normal rate. The big packers still could not get top-grade beef at low enough prices; instead, they were buying grass-fed animals straight from the ranges. Even with the gradual return to normality, the trouble was far from over; feeders were still not buying animals for fattening and sale in the fall. No one could tell whether Mike Di Salle's controls would keep beef flowing to the dinner...
...College is at its loveliest during Commencement week. The trees have not yet lost their delicate spring green; the grass is fresh and well manicured; an the Houses have just received a new coat of paint. Surveying the College from across the river at sunset, it all looks pretty fine...
With the exam period diamond drought at an end, the varsity baseball team will romp on Soldiers Field grass again at 3 p.m. Thursday with Boston College as an opponent and then move west to meet Williams at 3 p.m. Saturday...
...wanted to humanize." Trips to the Brittany sea-coast increased his affection for billowing curves. Sitting on the beach he decided, "The sea has a good thumb. It molds everything. Much came of watching the sea, the fish, the women on the beach, the green things and water grass...