Word: spawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonists' military supplies. Di Carlo's trip will be the first major commemorative event since the U.S. Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities to the tiniest hamlets, and spawn thousands of speeches, parades, pageants, school plays, fairs, exhibitions, TV shows, postage stamps, buttons, T shirts and Jefferson knows what else before the party officially ends...
...tragedy it may spawn, the communist conquest, seem in the context of the past decade's events there is the best recent news from Vietnam. For conquering armies the North Vietnamese and NLF have been unusually nonviolent, especially by comparison to the Americans, and South Vietnamese--although it is easy to be nonviolent when one's enemy isn't putting up a fight. They have taken most of South Vietnam with very little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside...
...only alien species that plagues the nation. There are European pigeons, which spread a form of meningitis and defile monuments and building ledges and the German carp, a "wonderfish" imported in the 1870s, which has displaced native game fish from lakes and rivers by eating their food and their spawn. New threats come from the exotic species that escaped from rare-animal or fish farms: the ill-tempered Asian walking catfish, the South American piranha and India's citrus fruit-eating red-whiskered bulbul -to mention just a few. They prove over and over again that most alien species...
...White House that the country could run it self and that he was going to devote himself to the most important issue of man kind, as he saw it- the issue of war and peace. He pretty well kept his promise, ignoring domestic matters. That indifference, of course, helped spawn Watergate...
...into what may be the cleanest industrial river in the world. Last month, for the first time in 141 years, an 8-lb. 4-oz. adult female salmon was fished up by workers from the screens of a London power station. Presumably, it had migrated up the river to spawn in the now pristine waters. The prize was solemnly taken to the Natural History Museum, which declared it a genuine dead salmon, and scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture dutifully lent their own support to the finding. The discovery of the salmon?and its encouraging implications for the Thames?...