Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other four-rounders Billy Duquette dropped a paunchy, sleepy Charlie Rice twice in less than a minute to score a quick TKO, and Tommy Rose took a unanimous decision from Charlie kitredge...
...been running at around 40% a year, while soaring oil costs have resulted in a gaping foreign trade deficit. But a strict austerity program for petroleum and a cutback on imports has reduced the outflow of foreign exchange. More important, South Viet Nam in 1975 should become a net rice exporter for the first time since...
...gray plum tree on the brownish rice paper is twisty and knuckled with age. Plum trees regenerate themselves each year, and here the new sprouts burst like porcupine quills from the bark. The brush strokes have an extraordinary intensity-not so much delicacy as martial precision: one imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised...
...capital's sole maintaining lifeline of emergency supplies was the Phnom-Penh airport. Insurgents, dug in less than five miles from the airport, last week were shelling it with as many as 60 rocket and 105-mm. artillery rounds per day. One U.S. cargo DC-8 carrying rice from Saigon was hit by rocket fire. But after a brief halt, the airlift of food and ammunition continued...
...military attempts to assert its rule, is on the verge of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of refugees face the prospect of starvation in the coming weeks; troops still loyal to Lon Nol are disorganized and demoralized. The regime now rests on a single pillar; the daily American airlift of rice and ammunition into Phnom Penh. American experts and policy-makers are unanimous in their opinion that Phnom Penh would fall almost immediately to the Khmer Rouge without the airlift...