Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stay in power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria two weeks ago ordered that 243,000 acres in Sonora's lush, irrigated Yaqui valley, worth about $80 million, be handed over to landless peasantry. The subsequent "invasion" of 8,000 farm families was smoothly run overnight by government-sponsored unions. By dawn, happy, flag-waving campesinos were haggling over boundaries...
...realty, he plans to appeal to foreign buyers. He hopes eventually to open a branch office in Europe. What German industrialists, Greek shipowners and perhaps oil sheiks want, he believes, might just be a trout farm nestling in California's Lassen National Forest, a fly-in ranch in lush green Montana or a splendid 240-acre swamp in Florida...
THIS KIND OF Lotus-eaters imagery deludes many Westerners into viewing the East as lush, exotic, and unique. On the ferry from Algeciras to Tangier it's easy to become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's tempting to affect an eighteenth-century gentleman merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature...
...hopelessly mired in Amazon mud?the progress at Jari is extraordinary. So far, about 185,000 acres, an area more than ten times the size of Manhattan Island, have been cleared and planted with Caribbean pine and Gmelina. Viewed from the air, the new forest looks as thick and lush as the sections of old native jungle left uncut along the riverbanks. A wild array of undergrowth, burnt away in the initial clearing, quickly grows back among the newly planted trees...
...music did not have the warm mellowness of venerable Carnegie Hall, nor did it seem to have enough bass on the left side of the main floor. But other conductors and orchestras will provide the ultimate test of those qualities: the cerebral Boulez is not a man for lush sonorities, and the Philharmonic still sounds brasher than most, undoubtedly because of their struggle in the old hall...