Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern Warlord. The squabble is not concerned with the growing or gathering of opium; that job belongs for the most part to such primitive tribesmen as the Meo, Ekaw, Bolong, Wa and Yao, who slit the poppy-seed pods for their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
...recoilless rifles, as well as rifles and machine guns. But lately they have been bugged by increasing independence on the part of smugglers, such as Chan Chi-foo, a slender half-Chinese, half-Shan tribesman in his 30s who speaks softly but carries the big stick of a modern warlord, commanding the services of perhaps 2,000 well-armed...
Khrushchev found Ehrenburg a little too outspoken and said so; but Ehrenburg, now a secure senior citizen of the Soviet literary establishment, with a five-room luxury apartment in Moscow filled with modern French art, paid no heed. Ehrenburg always insisted he had not bought his immunity under Stalin. "I lived in an era when the fate of man resembled not so much a chess game as a lottery," he said. Last week, at the age of 76, the last lottery brought down the professional survivor: he died of a heart attack in Moscow...
Without exception, he found that his estimates of body temperatures of the fossil animals were within 3% of the normal temperatures of their modern descendants. The estimated temperature of the browsing ground sloth, for example, was about 96° F., only two degrees above the temperature of its modern contemporary, the two-toed sloth...
...rugged hills near Piaxtla, an isolated village in the state of Puebla, a modern auto recently pulled a bright orange trailer toward a group of waiting campesinos. They unhitched the trailer, hooked it up to a pair of brown oxen, and the animals plodded to the top of a hill overlooking the town...