Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economy. Economically, Red China is still suffering from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward," a shortlived 1958-61 attempt at crash industrialization and collectivization that resulted in a major drop backward. The country is also still feeling the effects of the 1960 pullout of Russian technicians, who not only took their blueprints with them but also, in a final fraternal gesture, sabotaged the machinery they left behind. In North China people in rags still live in the same caves around Yenan in which Mao and his men holed up for years after the Long March. All kinds of consumer goods...
...Leap rate of 5 billion). Red China now manufactures rolled-steel railroad wheels, X-ray machines, transistor radios, computers...
...late, the hunger pangs have eased. Grain production is up from a post-Leap year low of 160 million tons to 186 million tons this year, and another 5,000,000 tons a year are being imported from the West...
...ration, though its price makes it a luxury. Despite the ridicule he heaped on Khrushchev's incentive measures, Mao permits hog farmers, after delivering their fixed quotas to collectives, to sell the balance on a free market. Dogs and cats, slaughtered wholesale for food during the Leap, are again appearing with impunity in Peking and Shanghai, and even birds-once relentlessly exterminated as predators-have returned to Canton...
John McCluskey got off Harvard's longest run of the period--five yards--but the Crimson had to punt. This time Mechling had to leap for John O'Brien's high center and Bill Calhoun blocked the kick...