Word: pra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love feast" or community religious meal, pra'cticed by the early Christians...
Before the last star has faded on the horizon, on every day, seven days a week, Alex Johnson, 60, a husky (212 lb.), balding man from Miami, gets up, pulls on his khaki working clothes, leaves his stilt-legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired...
...years in Tha Pra, Alex Johnson has introduced the country's first silage system, taught sanitation, farm management, building construction and irrigation, brought high-yield corn (50 bu. per acre) from Indonesia, improved pasture and foliage, showed his charges how to use commercial fertilizer, planted grain and sweet sorghum, introduced the Velvet bean and the cowpea (for soil improvement). In his own acre-plus garden he demonstrated to once dubious Thailanders that pineapples and bananas can be grown well in poor soil, even cultivated tomatoes, collards, okra, eggplant, yellow squash, sweet corn and lettuce...
...month) is double the prevailing French journalistic wage. The publishers hold a daily 6 p.m. editorial conference with Editor Max, seldom emerge from their cluttered third-floor office before 9 p.m. Last week the lights were burning later than usual in the massive sandstone building near the Oépra, where Réaltiés and its sister magazines are published. Max and staff were mapping their most challenging assignment yet: a wide-ranging report on life in Russia and Communist China. At week's end, Max put the Cossets on a plane for Moscow, first stop...
...turn the city's strikes into riots required only a little Communist know-how. The Reds moved in with a front called The Committee Against the High Cost of Living, and called on the workers to assemble at Praça da Sé, before the city's unfinished cathedral, for a "March of the Empty Pots." Policemen with loudspeakers warned the strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into...