Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also played a part in Taiwan's newfound prosperity. Last year the Nationalist Chinese sold South Viet Nam some $100 million in machinery, fertilizer and other goods, nearly 15% of Taiwan's total exports. In Japan, the U.S. military during 1967 bought some $200 million worth of goods for Viet Nam, ranging from sandbags to Isuzu buses. The war less directly helped generate another $800 million in Japanese exports; for example, G.I.s based in Southeast Asia purchased 13% of Japan's total camera exports. Other beneficiaries include Singapore and Malaysia, which store and ship Viet Nam-bound...
...With his newfound political knowledge, Willie made the trek to New York in 1963, where he met the traditional rebuffs at the surly hands of cabbies, waiters and landlords. "I had known Mississippi rednecks," he complains, "mother-killers, grandmother-killers, sixth-year graduate students and spitballers who threw at your head; but I had never run up against people so lacking in the human graces." He found that New York literary types were not much better. One after another, the idols of his boyhood came tumbling down when he met them in the flesh...
...Race. Proud as they are of Expo's success, Canadians have taxed their imaginations to make sure that their centennial will be remembered for more than the fair alone. Oil Rigger Clint Shaw, 25, is demonstrating his patriotism by roller-skating 4,000 miles eastward from Victoria to Newfound land. Teams of Canadians dressed in the garb of the early fur traders are paddling from Alberta to Expo in a 3,300-mile canoe race. Later this month, 200 Canadians will race across the Georgia Strait near Vancouver in seagoing bathtubs fitted with outboard motors...
...natural growth of the fish against the intensity of fishing." The industry, meanwhile, is moving to what it hopes will be more productive waters. The Gulf of Mexico is one possibility. Gulf menhaden, a separate species, is still abundant. Another possibility is the fishing beds off Nova Scotia and Newfound land, where herring runs plentifully and can be used as a substitute for menhaden. In fact, Litton Industries and W. R. Grace see a potential boom in herring, and have teamed up with the Newfoundland government to test new fishing and processing techniques...
...years of duty. To meet the Navy's physical requirements, he had to drop 50 lbs., and while on a rigorous diet in the metabolic ward of the Naval Hospital in Oakland he lost weight fast. No sooner was he back on duty than he discovered that his newfound slimness was a surprising disadvantage. He was expected to do chores from which he had formerly been excused. His wife expected him to be more active both generally and sexually...