Word: sap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas. In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Now scientists have discovered that the Rio Negro's botanically infused waters may be a simple, untapped and essentially unlimited supply of a new and fool proof insecticide...
They will sap the constructive energy of the Movement by focusing all activity on winning a violent victory...
...grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, which was concerned about the possibility that the disease might spread to the U.S., Harpaz finally identified the virus carrier as a tiny plant hopper named Delphacodes striatellus. The insect, he discovered, was not particularly fond of corn, preferring the sap of barley, wheat and oat plants during winter and wild grasses in the summer. But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses. In the process, the corn-killing viruses thriving...
...fakes that he is stuck with? "I might build me a room on the side of the house in Dallas," mused Meadows. "It will be the 'My Experience with Fake Paintings' room. I'd add just one more picture-one of myself, and call it Mr. Sap...
...Kids. They are straight, they say. No drinking, no smoking, no dating. There are no rules against such vices in the organization, but no one indulges. In the handbook Moral Re-Armament: What is It? it is made very clear that these are evils. They pollute your mind and sap your energy, draw it away from the Cause...