Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, the damage in Washington ran to $12.5 million, including $2,500,000 in school buildings and $3,500,000 in Boeing Co. facilities, one of which was the Renton plant...
...cost housing area in the city's southeast: bazookas, .50-cal. machine guns, automatic rifles. Pro-Bosch rebels numbering about 2,000 to 4,000 began waging an urban guerrilla war, making forays into the business district, thus paralyzing the city. Rebel mobs sacked the new Pepsi-Cola plant, set fire to the offices of a pro-Reid newspaper, destroyed Reid's auto agency...
...idea that somewhere in the animal or vegetable kingdom there must be an antifertility agent that would be "more natural." Their belief has rested on weak reeds: on every continent, among people of all races, there are numerous old wives' tales to the effect that a particular plant, if its leaves are chewed at the full of the moon or some other arbitrary time, can be counted on to prevent conception...
...played with wooden paddles and a light little ball that is forever getting lost under the TV set. In Red China, where there are 3,000,000 registered players, it is the national sport. Every commune, factory and office has its Ping-Pong league: in one Shanghai plant alone, there are 140 teams. So it was no surprise when last week's world table-tennis championships got under way in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, that the Red Chinese were head and shoulders above the players from 46 other nations. "With them," said a veteran European competitor, "table tennis...
...greater than a year ago, and Detroit's six-millionth car of the model year rolled off the production line three weeks ahead of the 1964 pace. Orders for machine tools hit a nine-month peak in March. U.S. industry is spending considerably more this year on plant expansion and new equipment than originally estimated; at the present rate, 1965 capital spending is expected to soar 15%, to more than $51 billion...