Word: grower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punishable by a maximum ten years in jail and a $2,500 fine, but the more tolerant law on possession seemed to wilt the ardor of anti-dope investigators. "The police just don't care as much since the state decriminalized possession of less than an ounce," says one grower. Soon after the legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with the brand name American Dream printed in purple. Then a logger was nearly killed when he tripped a dynamite trap around a well-tended...
...December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal amount. With warehouses still bulging with surplus sugar, prices are expected to be depressed for months, a fact that may make housewives smile but is of no solace to the still beset U.S. sugar grower...
...children are born to accept their parents' dictums so easily, and Coles vividly portrays the experiences of children who are taught the second theme of their privileged lives, paternalism. Hence the example of Larry, the young son of a grower who persists in asking his father, at the age of six, why there are children his age working in the fields, helping their parents, when he himself was doing nothing. His feelings take on a stronger idealistic tone at 11, when he writes an essay in school explaining why he is lucky and "unlucky" and how he does not want...
Wine, like every other form of art and artifice, stands or slumps on manners. These new American vintages are well-trained: they do not speak out of turn. They await parental approval. They are infants. Alexis Lichine, a wine grower shipper and guru (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), observes that it has taken 20 centuries for the wines of Europe to evolve. Says he: "All it takes is time, trial and a great measure of good luck." To which, in the U.S., might be added patience, faith, curiosity and quite a few dollars...
...note issued in Alabama in 1861 can fetch up to $1,000, and a $5 bill from Richmond may bring up to $900. Particularly in demand are $100 notes depicting slaves hoeing cotton. Proving that more than one peanut farmer knows how to exploit his roots, a goober grower from Virginia enticed a collector into shelling out $10,000 for an 1861 Virginia $500 note...