Word: sorghum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quemoy was once a barren outpost, but Chiang Kai-shek is said to have decreed in 1951: "Make it green." So the Nationalists have planted 70 million seedling trees, mostly Australian pine. They have since added bananas, mangoes, pears and apples. There are fields of corn and sorghum that help to make the island's 62,000 civilian inhabitants self-sufficient. The island even has a frail industrial base, a pottery plant and a liquor distillery. "For the soldiers, we have a lot of peanut candy shops and billiard parlors," a guide remarks...
...expected to fill quotas set in the current Five-Year Plan, especially for feed-grains used in meat production. Under last week's agreement, which was announced at the Western White House by National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Moscow can buy any combination of U.S. wheat, corn, sorghum, rye, oats and barley that it chooses, at the going market rate. The Soviets' biggest concession was to accept the same financing that the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation gives any other customer: 6⅛% annually, with the entire loan repaid within three years after the last delivery...
...plowing the stony earth while his wife cleans their two-room hut, then joins him in the fields. A member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat, chicken or some other delicacy-there may be time for the peasant to work on his private plot of land, on which he grows vegetables to vary the family diet...
...women, men can always be found. Far more threatening to the reviving industry is a misreading of the entrails, a miscalculation of public opinion. To return to the stereotypical Joan Crawford flick ("Let me alone, Paul, I'm a lost crusade") would be to drown in a sea of sorghum, to turn off the young, the middle-aged and the old. To generations brought up on television, every plot is known; to a sexually liberated society, every shock has been felt or consciously bypassed...