Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imported fertilizer and improved strains of seed and breeding pigs and chickens are helping to raise peasant incomes in Viet Nam, where 85% of the people live off the land. Pesticide sprays treated 1,400,000 acres and 10 million rats were exterminated last year, halving a 30% crop wastage through vermin and disease...
...Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints, cornflakes, half-chewed raw carrot, bits of melon and melon seed, milk, and tufts of moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad-minded about it all: "The visual arts today are a kind of brothel of the intellect, and nobody can write a report on a brothel while primly standing outside...
...locks and sent them off to a German teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John. "I've got a new face now." The new face looked absolutely naked, but he figures that his mop will be normally back to seed in a month or two. Meantime, he might travel incognito for a change, or fob himself off as Peter Sellers...
...pile up as many as 50 cars in one grand smashup. The task of problem solving is falling increasingly on the state government in Sacramento or on Washington. After city and county authorities balked at using local tax funds, for example, the state put up $3,900,000 for seed money for a new rapid-transit system still in the planning stages...
...self-styled "Catholic in the reformed tradition," Butler fits into Trinity's high-church pattern, has a reputation as a pastoral preacher who skillfully uses Biblical passages to illuminate modern themes. Butler would like to see some of Trinity's daughter chapels become selfsupporting, thus providing seed money for new projects in Harlem and other depressed areas of the city. Trinity's power and wealth, he says, must always be used "for the maximum good of the nation and the city...