Word: home-grown
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Party cadres still regularly instruct groups of peasants in the cathartic pleasures of "speaking bitterness" about the bad old pre-Mao days. Provincial newspapers and radio stations (about half of China's towns and villages receive broadcasts) blare endless polemics against U.S. imperialists, Soviet revisionists and home-grown "class enemies...
...Ohio's. Thereafter, a succession of charming thieves and defective democrats occupied the presidential palace. The most candid was Alfredo Zayas (1921-25). Upon passage of a multimillion-dollar harbor bill, he announced that he had "300,000 good reasons for signing it." Cuba's two ablest home-grown rulers were the tyrants who followed Zayas. When Dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-33) snuffed out constitutional democracy, he had student and labor leaders thrown to the sharks off Morro Castle. After ex-Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista took over in 1934, he remained, both in and out of office...
...semicylindrical structure, which covers five acres and daily devours some 70,000 gallons of desalinated sea water, went into full production last week. Eighteen varieties of fruit and vegetable were planted, including cabbages, watermelons, turnips, lettuce, tomatoes and squash.Sheik Zaid confident that there will soon be enough home-grown produce to satisfy his domestic market, can now entertain the notion of exporting fresh Abu Dhabian vegetables to his neighbors...
...something of a tradition in Cincinnati. The trouble has always been pitching-except for this year. A couple of trades brought in two American League veterans: Jim Merritt from the Minnesota Twins and Jim McGlothlin from the California Angels. Together they have won 28 games. A pair of home-grown youngsters, Gary Nolan, 22, and Wayne Simpson, 21, have added another 29 victories...
Little besides geography links the four countries that make up modern-day Indochina-Cambodia, Laos, North and South Viet Nam. For 20 centuries, neither foreign conquerors nor home-grown dynasts have ever managed to persuade the peoples of the verdant, fertile peninsula to collect themselves into a single nation. Indeed, long before the present struggle engulfed them, their differences had led to a history of prolonged and tangled conflicts...