Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grotesque disregard for the environment in now vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly if at all on hundreds of thousands of once fertile acres. Cities that were built for walking and carriages are now, like Rome or Taranto, choked with Fiats. Traditional patterns of circulation die as the arcades vanish and piazzas become parking...
...citizens as "the island at the end of the world." Wages were low, prices were rising, and food was in short supply-so short that the government's planning minister, Barthelemy Johasy, complained that it was "scandalous and aberrant" to see "long queues of people waiting to buy rice in a rice-producing country...
Meals of eight spoonfuls of rice...
...commented that his government and people had successfully completed the purely military phase of the war. He said that 1971 was a year of transition which had allowed consolidation of gains and improvement of the well-being of the citizenry. The war--in going away from the most productive rice growing areas in the countryside and from the large urban centers toward "fall-back" zones in remote areas--had now become a strictly military affair...
...other action, Communist forces extended their control over areas of the northern rice-rich province of Binh Dinh in the central coast area, and continued to pressure An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon...