Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of years, much of sub-Saharan Africa is stalked by the grim specter of famine. This year has been one of the worst. A 40-month drought has left the area brown and blistered. Crops have failed; millions of cattle have died. Thousands of farmers are eating seed grains to stave off starvation, thus ensuring that there will be insufficient food from future harvests. In lands where suicide is rare, starving nomads, after losing their herds, have killed themselves in desperation...
...holy man's traditional style, he dispenses advice to reverent villagers. The advice is often practical as well as religious, perhaps warning them about such practices as thatching their cow sheds because of the danger of fire. He has also started both a savings bank and a seed bank for the villagers...
...SEED PUPPET THEATER. Would you believe they alchemize silence and slow time into art? Neither would I, but who are we to question The Real Paper? Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
Litigation dragged through the years, and the family struggled on. The old baron suffered a paralyzing stroke ten years ago; the baroness continued trying to manage the estate. Then a local merchant who had long sold grain and seed and rented farm machinery to the De Portals presented a bill for $14,000. The family charged that it was a fraud. Before the matter could be resolved, a judge ordered the estate sold at auction. Though it was worth an estimated $330,000, a farmer named Louis Rivière made the high bid of $88,000, and the outstanding...
...spot in the East and a ranking among the top five in the country. But even then you couldn't really knock the team. The Crimson came on strong at the finish, taking its last four while outscoring its opponents 30-6. Harvard grabbed the number two seed in the ECAC tourney, which didn't seem too bad as the predicted outcome had the top four seeds winning the quarterfinals, leaving Harvard to play B.C. in the semis, while Cornell and B.U. slugged it out for the right to play the Crimson in the finals...