Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been laid down during an age when earlier plants such as ferns and pinelike trees still dominated the earth's flora-some 50 million years before flowering plants are believed to have appeared. But palms are flowering plants, or angiosperms (from the Greek angeion, meaning container, and sperma, seed), and play the principal role in what Charles Darwin called "the great abominable mystery of biology." Angiosperms, which embrace everything from tropical palms and northern oak trees to Kentucky bluegrass and backyard rose bushes, had come to dominate the plant kingdom by the end of the Age of Reptiles...
...Major seed producers say that there will be sufficient resistant seed supplies for next year's crop. For this year, all that farmers can do is pray for a spell of cool drought in the corn belt. If the weather changes, says Dr. George W. Irving, head of the Agricultural Research Service, "the impact of the disease on the total crop could be slight." The next two weeks will be the crucial time...
...over the bosom, fluttered into pleats at the hips; gently fitted shirt-coats unbuttoned to reveal sinewy sheaths; appliques, borrowed from Matisse collages, formed butterflies on blousy knickers, birds in flight on a blue suede coat. The St. Laurent way for evening: sheer silk chemises, re-embroidered with tiny seed beads or baby sequins, delicate as veils and every bit as enticing...
...story-and no film-better reveals Lawrence's moral absolutism than The Virgin and the Gypsy. Between its narrow boundaries is sown the seed of the Lawrentian canon-the familial conventions, the social hypocrisies, the annealing force of sex. The time is the '20s and the maiden is Yvette (Joanna Shimkus), who steps backward from French finishing school to her father's claustrophobic vicarage in northern England. The old authorities are reasserted, and Yvette is briefly cowed by her hectoring, rectoring father (Maurice Denham) and his priggish relatives. But there is a new spirit...
...Seed Money. A political and economic conservative, Mellon displayed a strong social conscience that showed itself in deeds rather than words. He was the prime force behind the rebuilding projects that converted downtown Pittsburgh from a tangle of blackened buildings to an area of gleaming skyscrapers in largely smoke-free air. The Mellon family's money has seeded slum-rebuilding programs and efforts to open jobs and business opportunities for blacks. For years Pittsburghers said, only half-jokingly, that Pennsylvania's late Governor David Lawrence, who was a power in the national Democratic Party, owed his prominence...