Word: hybridized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limousine are thrown in, courtesy of the current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses the car to go to the Moscow apartment reserved for his use. Shunning all but his closest friends and family, he spends his time hunting moose and hare, raising prize hogs, and experimenting with hybrid corn he got from Roswell Garst, an Iowa farmer who came...
...careful inspection and analysis by staff members of the Arnold Arboretum has established the identity of the trees along Memorial Drive that are to be moved for underpasses as "a hybrid of long standing between an American and Eurasian species of Platanus...
...common name for this tree in general use is London plane," according to Bernice G. Schubert, associate curator of the Arboretum, "but the use of common names is virtually meaningless." She appealed yesterday for use of the Latin nomenclature of the hybrid Platanus acerifolia...
...This hybrid of Platanus was "originated perhaps as early as 1670," Miss Schubert explained. Choosing a common name for it is complicated, she said, since "it is more generally planted under the name of the oriental plane than the true Platanus orientalis...
...little hydrogen is burned along with the metal and its oxidizer, the hybrid will become a "tribrid." Its specific impulse will rise into the range of the yet to be built nuclear rockets. But there will be nothing like the "nukes' " penalties in cost and danger...