Word: sown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead, Harpaz turned to the virus itself. Further research revealed that it was extremely sensitive to heat, ceasing all reproductive activity within the plant hopper when the temperature reached 76°F. To Harpaz, this suggested a simple solution: instead of in early April, hybrid corn should not be sown in Israel until late May. Thus when the seedlings emerged early in June, he reasoned, the few viruses left in the plant hoppers' salivary glands would be too sluggish to infect the corn...
...separate service programs for the military service; it would seek to make humanitarianism a working part of our defensive military posture. Clearly the requirements of military training will still have to be met, and the military system may adjust to this with difficulty. But let the seed be sown as soon as the present war is over. There is no threat that such a philosophy will threaten the strength of our defense; on the contrary, as the level of education in this country rises and the temperament of youth changes, our soldiers may demand that they be asked...
Focus on the Future. So rapidly have programs multiplied that fragmentation and lack of coordination are chronic. The inevitable consequence has been a withering fusillade of criticism aimed at the Great Society. Democratic Governors complained to Johnson that his programs had sown confusion in their states by gorging them with cash and concepts that they were simply not prepared to handle. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged the 90th Congress to conduct a "top-to-bottom" re-evaluation of Great Society programs to repair "rough edges, overextensions, overlaps, and perhaps even significant gaps." Congress seems more than willing...
Alien Atmosphere. The three-ton Venice Landscape,* currently on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, locates three 7-ft.-tall bronze monsters on a mechanistic version of a Giacometti plain sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless...
...charges of TNT. As the Iron Curtain wears thin, the mines are be coming as much of an embarrassment as a hindrance to trespassers. Stray cats or even a speedy thaw sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka and Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand on the banks of the Pinka hit a mine, which blasted off both his hands. Three weeks ago, Claudia...