Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 70% of Israel's hybrid corn crop withered away in 1958, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, suspecting that the disease was spread by an insect, called on Harpaz for aid. By 1959 Harpaz had discovered that the corn blight -which he straightforwardly named Rough Dwarf Maize Disease-was caused by a virus. Coping proved more difficult...
...city's books currently indicate a $3 million deficit, and rough estimates show that the tax hike will be in the neighborhood of $6 to $82 per $1,000 assessed value...
...garbed the aristocracy in Empire costumes of the Napoleonic period, with an emphasis on brown, white, and gold. The two love-smitten maidens wear identical low-necked, high-waisted white gowns, with a blue sash for Helena and a pink one for Hermia. The "mechanicals" are outfitted in rough reds, oranges, and yellows. Fletcher had, paradoxically, a field day with the forest folk--Titania and her fairies in green and pink, the bicorn Oberon and his winged retinue in sequined blues...
...garbed the aristocracy in Empire costumes of the Napoleonic period, with an emphasis on brown, white, and gold. The two love-smitten maidens wear identical low-necked, high-waisted white gowns, with a blue sash for Helena and a pink one for Hermia. The "mechanicals" are outfitted in rough reds, oranges, and yellows. Fletcher had, paradoxically, a field day with the forest folk--Titania and her fairies in green and pink, the bicorn Oberon and his winged retinue in sequined blues...
...used only 29 putts. With a four-stroke lead and only the par-five 542-yd. 18th left to play, Jack decided to take no chances and hit a No. 1 iron instead of a wood off the tee. The ball sliced into the rough; Nicklaus pitched out-and reached for the No. 1 again. This time he belted it a full 240 yds., onto the green, 22 ft. from the pin. Jack carefully surveyed the putt and stroked it straight into the center of the cup for $30,000 and his second U.S. Open victory-breaking Ben Hogan...