Word: sown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roosevelt policy, designed, with Stalin, to keep the Allies in the West, was "to exercise a baneful, and nearly fatal influence over the future of Greece." He notes that the postwar burden of correcting this "almost unilateral American decision [has] fallen largely on the American people . . . Thus were sown the seeds of the partition of Europe, and the tragic divisions which were to dominate all political and strategic thinking for a generation...
...Increase. "The financial community," says Executive Vice President Ralph F. Leach of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., "needs a strong signal to break the inflationary psychology which dominates its thinking. Seeds of disaster have been sown." Like many other bankers and economists, Leach insists that both federal spending cuts and a tax increase have become "absolutely imperative" to avoid financial chaos. Ordinarily, the Federal Reserve Board would clamp down on credit. But the Treasury's need to finance at least another $5 billion of federal deficit by year's end-and much more in 1968-locks...
They were furious when Kenya got the territory from Britain as part of its in dependence package in 1963, and ever since, the Somalis have trained and equipped the terrorists. Like a small-scale Viet Cong, the shifta have am bushed army patrols, sown vast networks of road mines, and abducted and tortured village headmen. Their raiders have killed at least 645 civilians for not cooperating with them. But lately the Kenyan government has been successfully striking back-largely by forcing the nomadic tribes to settle down where they can be kept under scrutiny...
Defense against helicopters was developed too. Choppers bringing U.S. troops to the rescue may be greeted by sharp, 6-ft. stakes pointed skyward to rip open their bellies, or electrically detonated mines sown beneath the sod. So prized is a helicopter kill to the Viet Cong that a soldier who shoots one down is rewarded with a month's leave, a bicycle, a pen and a watch...
...test Harpaz' findings, Israeli farmers last year planted some of their hybrid corn in early April, the rest late in May. There could be no doubt about the results. Although 45% of the plants sown in April came down with Maize Disease, only 3% of the May plants were infected. Similar tests, adjusted for local temperature variations, have also proved successful in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Italy, where corn farmers are learning that they can reap more by sowing later...