Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than six decades, American Seed Co. of Lancaster, Pa., provided thousands of youngsters with their first lessons in free enterprise. Grade school children scampered about their neighborhoods selling the firm's garden seeds for a chance to share in the profits and win prizes like bicycles and baseball mitts. But now American Seed has gone out of business, the victim of childhood corruption. Since 1975, some 400,000 young business people have sent away for the seeds but then pocketed all the sales receipts, instead of returning part of the money to the company as payment...
Flood every newborne seed...
Harvard's women's tennis team began its fall season in style yesterday afternoon with a 9-0 thrashing of Boston College. Tiina Bougas paced the Crimson in singles with a7-5, 6-1 victory over BC's top seed, Bernie Diaz. Meanwhile, freshmen Elizabeth Evans, Debbie Kaufman, and Deanne Loonin showed plenty of promise as they coasted to straight-set victories in the second, fourth and fifth positions, respectively. Veterans, Erica Schulman and Kristen Mertz also scored easy wins to complete the Harvard singles sweep. The doubles matches all went to Harvard in straight sets as well...
...American woman, Mary Ann Eisel, in the second round, saving six match points with finely honed strokes that would soon become famous: cross-court forehands and sweeping, two-fisted backhands down the line. Suddenly she was "Little Chrissie, Cinderella in Sneakers," enthroned on center court. She whipped the fifth seed, Franchise Durr, and Australian Lesley Hunt. She reached the semifinals, the youngest player ever to climb to the final four, before finally losing to Billie Jean King, the eventual champion. A most extraordinary athletic career had begun...
This season in Adair County has been a ballet of breathtaking intricacy, timing and beauty. In late May and early June, when the plowed land lay naked and vulnerable, there were no pelting rains to rip out seed and carry off precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots. The temperature never went over 100° F, and every evening cool air formed in the swales and spread protectively over the young plants. The moisture choked the grasshopper hatch. Tornadoes and hail, which can claw the land raw in seconds, never materialized...