Word: scatteration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massive extirpation force netted and scatter-gunned the exhausted birds or snared them with long, gum-tipped bamboo poles. At last report 310,000 sparrows had fallen in Peking alone, and an estimated 4,000,000 throughout the rest of Red China. The national hero was Yang Seh-mun, 16, of Yunnan. He had killed 20,000 sparrows by sneaking around during the day locating nesting trees. At night, China Youth proudly reported, he then climbed trees and strangled whole families of sparrows with his bare hands...
Public housing has always meant huge projects that pack in the most people possible per foot. But many experts now feel that such projects do nothing to stop spot decay in good neighborhoods. They suggest that a better way would be to scatter small units in strategic sites. Because Southern federal housing officials have been notably critical of the "blockbusting" theories of the housing authority, it finally set up the first experiment in Cedartown, 70 miles northwest of Atlanta...
...opinion of Alabama's Racist State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., if you can't lick 'em, the best thing to do is scatter 'em. Panicky because Negro vote strength was rising in his county seat of Tuskegee (pop. 6,700), Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro...
Turley threw a masterful game, blending his zipping fast ball with a slow curve and slider to save the Yanks from elimination. The reformed scatter-arm righthander, who failed to last two innings in Milwaukee, ended the game with a flourish by starting a double play on a ball hit back to the box by Wes Covington. He walked only two and fanned eight Braves...
...none too hopeful. Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes it a stubborn enemy...