Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese have the scientific know-how to continue. Because of Russian aid from 1950 to 1959 (when the Moscow-Peking split first fissured), they also have a network of operating uranium mines, at least four nuclear reactors, a raft of Soviet-trained technicians, and a rudimentary basic industrial plant that can furnish most of the products needed to maintain a small atomic-bomb program...
Part of the hoopla last week at the General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth may have been political, and the roll out date of the TFX fighter may indeed have been advanced a bit to have an effect on the presidential campaign. But the TFX (or F-111, as it is now called) is nonetheless a phenomenal airplane...
...Amazing," whistled the candy plant owner, "simply amazing. Five weeks ago he took two hours to canvass this factory. Today he'll make it in twenty minutes...
...dwarfs those around him, frequently snapping at his ragged staff to "be more on the ball." His frustration is justified, for he is surrounded by men of little stature and small ambition. This week's factory tours were repeatedly stalled by the forgetfulness of his aides. Outside each plant an absurd litany would ripple through the staff: "Where's the car?...Have you got his coat and hat?...Where in God's name...
...important as prose. He ignores the usual poetical devices that are calculated to woo a reader, makes no concession to sound for its own sake. As he describes Hawthorne in one poem, his head is often bent down, "Brooding, brooding, eyes fixed on some chip,/some stone, some common plant,/the commonest thing,/as if it were the clue...