Word: sown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeds of cultural change have been sown; Harvard can contribute creatively to cultural change or regress to a system of strict sex-segregation and no parietals. John Hartman...
...East German village of Mupperg are ideal for a Sunday stroll but disfigured by a fearsome scar-the 500-yd.-wide death strip sealing off East from West. Guarded by Grepos (Communist border police) with orders to shoot anything that moves, the no man's land is sown with mines and foot traps, every one tightly laced with three rows of barbed wire...
...President, he must be wishing he and never heard of the Clay Committee. But since fact he has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind, it cannot be unreasonable to try to see thy exactly everyone is revising his judgments on foreign...
...Because of his age and long experience in the civil service, younger Malay students looked to him as their leader, called him-because of his darker skin-"Black Uncle." In fiery political bull sessions with youthful follower Tun Abdul Razak, the seeds of a future political partnership were being sown; today Razak is the most trusted member of his Cabinet...
...decision by its leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts...