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Word: plot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shirt-Sleeve Mufti. Today irrigation pipes lace the fields around Kallia, as sprinklers shoot jets of fresh water high in the air. Massey-Ferguson cultivators dig furrows, and Kallia's first crop of yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ISRAEL SETTLING IN TO STAY | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

Only when the score is called upon to express uninteresting sentiments does the score fall flat. For instance, a plot song ("Our Littlt Secret") which tells about a clandestine illicit arrangement between two characters, though done in the Bacharach-David manner, remains mundane because the subject matter is emotionally barren...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: If Conrad Birdie Came Back to Broadway, Would He Have to Drop Some Acid First? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...attitude is not the innocently tolerant one that it first appears. He would grant Americans freedom of "political ideas", but he draws the line at "political action" tainting of "SDS, Communism, pacifism, nihilism, and treachery." When critics suggested that Ichord considered peace a Communist plot, the chairman quickly retracted his indictment of pacifists, saying he was misquoted...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: By Any Other Name | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

Jackson said the new Student Science Center will "make more generous use of the site"--the land between Littauer Center and Oxford Street, including the plot where Lawrence Hall now stands. No land will be available on the site to include a computer center at a later date, he said...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: Computer Unit Is Dropped From New Science Center | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...plot of the scandal is triangular, and the third party was handsome, mus cular Stevan ("the Bull") Markovic, a 31-year-old Serb who worked for Alain as a combination valet, bodyguard and friend. When Delon and Nathalie sallied forth to Parisian boites and discotheques, surrounded by their band of hangers-on, Markovic was always at their side. Wherever Alain went, in fact, Stevan was sure to go. He lived with them in their plush town house at 22 Avenue de Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Bodyguard | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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