Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson six launched a heavy barrage on the Cornell goal in the opening minutes and Cornell retaliated, with Harvard goalie Bill Diercks matching his stupendous counterpart save-for-save. The evening's hostility and whistle-blowing started just as promptly, when referee Giles Threadgold saw Cornell's Doug Ferguson plant his elbow in Pete Mueller's face...
...nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head for the stars to report to the Emperor of Jade, thus leaving the world to the evil offices of fork-tongued devils and scaly trolls. In defense, the Vietnamese must plant apricot shoots outside his home, scatter lime powder around the yard and set off giant strings of firecrackers (which caused some combat-weary soldiers on leave in Saigon to dive for cover...
...into Hobart's suburbs, blowing up a dynamite factory, gutting a brewery, and raising a thick, acrid pall of smoke that shut down the Hobart airport. In fact, the fire wiped out three of the island's burgeoning industries: a brewery, a fish cannery and a carbide plant. Trees exploded in the heat. Gutted paddocks sent up a stench of incinerated livestock. Houses melted. Autos burst into heaps of twisted black junk...
...deal for a $51 million, 500-mi. Syrian pipeline away from a British firm by offering to install it in half the time at lower cost. Beating out eleven international companies for a $32 million Madras, India, refinery contract, Progetti agreed to complete the 2½ million-ton plant in two years. The company has also pushed into the European market with a $4,000,000 pipeline in France, a $2,500,000 undersea line in Spain and a $3,000,000 factory job in West Germany...
...only plant which activates sexual activity." Dr. Riddiford said...