Word: harvested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most notable troubles are in agriculture. Drought contributed to a disastrous harvest in 1975; because of an 83-million-ton grain shortage, the Soviets were obliged to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign countries. The winter-wheat crop this year has already proved disappointing. Some Washington experts predict that shortages of bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities...
...gray train for the Lions was the rebounding department, as they picked the boards clean with 42 rebounds and limited Harvard to a meager harvest...
...dias in theater seats with green padding. This 90-minute service, followed by separate classes on Mormon doctrine and the final Sacraments meeting at 6:30 p.m., included individual speeches and music. The Mormon hymns have a sharp pioneer flavor. ("Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin...
...Delhi. "But, all the disclaimers to the contrary, she probably also believes that she is the only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million people are willing to go along with the Prime Minister. This year's harvest will be good, and prices, thanks to the government's tight money policy and crackdown on black marketeers, are down. Moreover, the government announced last week that the emergency had produced one windfall: voluntary disclosures of "black money" (undeclared and untaxed income) have so far amounted to $1.7 billion...
...genuine Okie, Harris was born in one of the nation's most impoverished areas in the Great Depression. His father, a land-poor, dirt-poor migrant farmer, went as far north as Canada to harvest crops. From the age of five, Harris accompanied him. To Harris, a bank was "more than a place to deposit and borrow money; it was almost a kind of religious institution." His father "was a different man, it seemed to me, when he went to the bank. He took his hat off the minute he walked through the door." Whenever Harris and his chums...