Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decker golf driving range near the Tokyo Tower, four full-scale symphony orchestras, three opera companies, three baseball parks (drawing as many as 45,000 spectators a night) and of course there is the Kabuki Theater. There is also Tokyo's industry to be seen-the vast Honda plant that cranks out motorcycles of all sizes and speeds (see MODERN LIVING); the glittering edifices of the banking and manufacturing cartels; the movie industry that has given the screen the best and cheapest imitations of U.S. cornball westerns ever made, as well as great directors such as Akira Kurosawa. Tokyo...
...Central Catholic High School, Bauer won his Cs in baseball and basketball-plus a permanently misshapen nose (the result of a collision with an opponent's elbow under the basket). After graduation, Hank worked for a while repairing furnaces in a beer-bottling plant. In 1941 his older brother Herman, a White Sox farm hand, wangled him a pro tryout. Hank landed with Oshkosh in the Class D Wisconsin State League. But he hardly burned up the bushes. Alternating between infield and outfield, he batted a measly .262. The manager thought he might be a pitcher. Earned-run average...
...insurers of 20 industrial nations not to extend export credit on terms longer than five years. Over the years, countless exceptions were made, but never to Communist countries. Then, in June, the British government agreed to guarantee a twelve-year credit of $10 million to Czechoslovakia for a fertilizer plant-and that set the precedent. Since then, Britain has opened negotiations for a $112 million, 15-year credit so that Russia can buy a prefabricated chemical plant. Italy granted a ten-year credit to the Czechs for a metal-galvanizing plant. Not to be outdone, a powerful consortium of French...
...process. Instead, the ingredients of beer-grain, water, hops and yeast-run through a maze of stainless-steel pipes, coils and tanks in response to commands from a 30-ft. console of dials, buttons and lights. Though the brewing time remains the same-six weeks-the new plant costs less to build, requires less labor than traditional plants, can expand in small stages...
...rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...