Word: nut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grande near Matamoros grow great fields of cotton, where only mesquite flourished 15 years ago. In booming Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops of corn and beans. Since World War II, Mexico has switched the emphasis from the revolution-blessed ejido (communal farm) to the privately owned farm, and with...
Proud Britons acclaimed the ascent of Everest as an achievement of the race that bore Raleigh, Nelson and Rhodes. To Asians it quickly became the personal-and national-triumph of a nut-brown little Sherpa who cannot read or write but who has grappled oftener with Everest (eleven expeditions) than any man alive...
...Earth Trembles. In doing so, the texts painted a complete picture of the Egyptian universe. The sky was heaven, personified as the goddess Nut, who was sometimes pictured as arched over the earth. But heaven was also a mirror of the earth, had islands, rivers, marshes and palaces, and was peopled by gods who showed themselves as stars. Each mortal, the Egyptians believed, had his double in heaven, and after death his spirit went forth to join the heavenly double. But the journey upwards was apparently a precarious one, and the burial texts attempted to take every precaution...
Solemnly chewing betel nut, he walked to Magsaysay, handed over his two pistols and a symbolic stack of 24 firearms, including BARs, carbines and old Japanese guns. In smooth tau-sog, Kamlon pledged the help of his band of 300 in Magsaysay's new campaign to quell the Moros, who are second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs...
...base of the Islands' economy is "the sugar and the pineapple industries, the tournist business, and government defense activities," David said. He added that there was room for expansion, "especially in the by-product areas." He cited the Macadamia nut industry, Hawaiian flowers, and technical improvements in the use of sugar products like bagasse and molasses as examples of the "new and expanding industries...