Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water and the food is ladled out of five-gallon cans. As I talked to broken men, silent women, sick children, the sameness of their clothing, their sadness and their words was crushingly monotonous. Many were farm people. Last season the Communists made them give up their seed crops and slaughter their pigs, cows and calves to meet agricultural quotas. The farmers knew that they could not possibly meet next year's higher quotas, so they fled...
...wife who, with a handy pair of scissors, dispatches the killer. This being only the middle of Act II, a lot more has to happen, and it is the measure of Playwright Knott's resourcefulness that villainy does not slump, nor chicanery deteriorate, nor sleuthing go to seed...
...Seed into Stone...
...ages is discouraging enough in itself, but why don't these myopic researchers take a course in simple Latin and discover what the old Roman botanical titles of these herbs meant in the first place? Even a schoolboy can tell at a glance that Lithospermum officinale means "seed petrified in the laboratory" . . . Gromwell indeed...
...first seeds reached Boston on January 5, 1948 by air mail; some were planted at the Arboretum and others distributed elsewhere. Several weeks later, the bulk shipment containing hundreds of thousands of seeds arrived. The Arboretum distributed some 600 seed packets to botanists all over the globe and sent large bulk parcels to American and foreign institutions--including Chaney at the University of California--for redistribution...