Word: manchurian
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...seeds sprouted and began pushing out leaves last spring, no one was more surprised than Dr. George W. Harding of the National Capital Parks in Washington. The young plants looked perfectly normal. But the seeds, collected by a Japanese scientist named Ichiro Ohga, had been picked out of a Manchurian peat deposit and were claimed to be 50,000 years old. Most botanists were skeptical. The lotus seeds keep their vitality for a long time, they said, but 150 or 200 years is about the limit...
...years, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get Congress to outlaw fancy names for common furs, last week finally won out when President Truman signed such a bill. Under it, the FTC will issue a "Fur Products Name Guide," which furriers will have to obey, e.g., black Manchurian dogs will be known as black Manchurian dogs, and not as "Belgium lynx" or "black poiret...
...were finally ready for the big breakout, some U.N. forces stabbed westward to Kunsan, but the main body drove north toward Seoul. Then MacArthur dealt one of the master strokes of the war: the landing at Inchon (Seoul's port). The routed North Koreans reeled back toward the Manchurian border. MacArthur sent his forces after them in hot pursuit up to the Yalu...
...Bomb no Manchurian bases...
...should bomb Manchurian bases...