Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pontiac '66s include 600 from one assembly plant that left wheel nuts un-tightened on the left sides of cars; so far, 570 have been rechecked...
...Announced a 15% increase in 1967 wheat production to meet rising world food needs. Under the Government's price-support program, farmers will be allowed to plant 7.7 million more acres in wheat, and can expect $100 million to $150 million in additional federal payments...
Bitten Bettors. With Britain struggling to defeat inflation at home, modernize its outmoded industrial plant, and raise exports so as to end its balance-of-payments deficit, most of Callaghan's countrymen were braced for higher income, sales, tobacco and liquor taxes, and perhaps higher down payments on installment purchases. They got nothing of the sort...
Marihuana, as everyone should know by now, is a crude preparation of the leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the female hemp plant--Cannabis sativa. Cannabis (accented on the first syllable, like "Canada") is a common roadside weed, bound to be growing on some vacant lot within a mile of your home. The quality of a Cannabis product depends upon its resin content; compared to hashish (the pure, dried resin) and ganja (flowering tops only of specially cultivated plants)--neither available in this part of the world--marihuana is a sort of cubscout variety of hemp. Yet even with...
...wonder to what extent the dismal public image of marihuana is a consequence of its route of entry. The medieval Assassins made Cannabis known as a plant that inspired fierce courage. Baudelaire gave it credit for being a gateway to worlds of visionary delight. But the wretched people who brought it to us--people who had high rates of crime and insanity to begin with--used it only to counteract the misery of their lives. Perhaps marihuana has been judged guilty by association...