Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...
...revolt had been brewing for two years among the older, mostly conservative residents of this farming and lumber town. Worried about the recession, dissident parents began protesting at school board meetings-about the expensive new high school, about the curriculum, even about the presence in the library of The Catcher in the Rye. Explained Janice Sether, a member of the Eagle Point city council, who has three children in the school system: "We don't like sex education in health class. We don't like gambling training in math class. The only way to deal with the situation...
...entomologist at the U.S. Forest Service's research labs in Corvallis, Daterman has been battling the Douglas-fir tussock moth, a major pest to the lumber industry in the Far West. In their larval stage, the voracious little insects can destroy a whole stand of valuable fir trees. For the past two years, Daterman and his colleagues at the Forest Service have been setting out forest traps baited with a man-made duplicate of the female moth's chemical sex-attractant pheromone. The object: to lure males, who can sniff out a mere trace of the powerful stuff...
Manhattanites in plaid flannel shirts and crepe-soled leather boots are hiking down Fifth Avenue. Students in goose-down vests and baggy sweatpants are trekking through Harvard Square. Dudes in lumber jackets are hanging out in Beverly Hills. Few of these folks have a clue how to swing a fly rod or an ax. But they do know that outdoor gear designed for the backwoods has come in from the cold for wear everywhere...
...highly styled-and highly priced ($256)-version of a riding jacket sold for $79.50 by the equestrian outfitter, Miller's of New York. Louis Vuitton has whipped up a knapsack ($275) blanketed with the familiar L.V.s. Patti Cappalli, 37, has turned out a little mink-lined lumber jacket ($450) and Alice Elaine, 33, is into Army twill pants and cowl-necked sweaters made out of sweatshirt fabric. "I really studied the catalogues," admits Elaine unabashedly. "But I changed the proportion, the fit, the cut. You have to be Lauren Hutton to look terrific in one of those green grizzly...