Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Equally adept at agronomy and foiling the police, Oregon's pot farmers turned home-grown weed into a profitable racket by developing their unique sinsemillas hybrid. The robust, waste-free strain attracts buyers willing to pay $1,600 a pound, the yield from just one well-cultivated plant. Studies show that sinsemillas weed contains five times more tetrahydrocannabinol (pot's narcotic ingredient) than the common Mexican variety. Even federal drug experts are impressed. "A good deal of expertise goes into producing that kind of plant," notes Dr. Carlton Turner, director of marijuana research for the National Institute of Drug Abuse...
...world surplus of beef anyhow, lifting restrictions would probably bring in no more than 250 million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and ten other countries. That would trim perhaps only a nickel a pound off the price of beef by year's end. Even so, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is fearful that an abrupt lifting of controls could have a disastrous psychological impact on ranchers, who would see prices begin to level off and would stop expanding their herds...
...father in midslather and led to his financial ruin was of little concern. Her ambition had already driven her to beard a haughty Alfred Stieglitz in his own studio-with his own camera. Other victims of Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits; and a dinner with Graham Greene is recalled in vivid detail and charming conversation...
Acculturation and women will be discussed tomorrow in Gutman and on Saturday, a Latino Health Conference will be held between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in the Harvard Medical School's Countway Library. Then comes the party at 7 p.m. in the Ropes and Gray Room of the Pound Building at the Law School...
...complete story must be told in 34 to 49 syllables. Asimov likes them to be not only clever but also a bit vulgar. "Clean limericks lack flavor-like vanilla ice cream or pound cake," he claims. "They are perfectly edible but, to my taste, are tame, flat and unsatisfying." Nonetheless, Asimov awarded first prize to this limerick by George Vaill, retired secretary of Yale University...