Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chronically starving Asia, reports of the new rice sounded like an invitation to a feast. It was tough and fast-growing, able to root almost anywhere and twice as bountiful as ordinary strains. Crossbred from a common tropical rice called peta (meaning seed) and an ancient Chinese variety known as dee-geo-woo-gen (brown-tipped, sharp-legged thing), IR8, as scientists tagged the hybrid, was promptly-and prematurely-labeled a miracle...
...HAVE learned about hypocrisy and perhaps think too much of ourselves for having unveiled the forked tongue of the Establishment. We have, like each new batch of rebels, tried to tickle the testicles of society in order to shake something loose, inject a little jism, a hopeful seed into the metallic womb of America...
...efforts, he announced this month that he had persuaded Boston banks, insurance companies and industries to invest $56 million in depressed neighborhoods. Some $50 million will be in loans to finance rehabilitation and construction of low-income housing units, while the remaining $6,000,000 will be seed money to encourage poor people to set up their own businesses...
...Frank McGee reports on some of the techniques being developed to diagnose obscure diseases and to use computers in new ways in medicine. Among those interviewed: Drs. Christian Anfinsen and Edward Evarts of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Leo Tick of New York University, Dr. John C. Seed of Montefiore Center in New York City, and Dr. Jerome Lettvin of M.I.T...
Jose Gonzales and Kent Parrot, Harvard's second doubles team, reached the quarter-finals before losing to Hughes and Mayotte of Holy Cross, the number two seed...