Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will have to give up ruling-class privileges, but in re turn they will no longer be the only ones to support the fam ily, get drafted, bear the strain of power and responsibility...
...complain fluently: "I got a split nair dyke. Smor niken bear. I left a tiger nippy sea." In short, "I've got a splitting headache. It's more than I can bear. I'll have to take an APC tablet." When it comes to the strain of Strine, in fact, those tablets may be the only remedy...
Such difficulties are fast becoming a grim routine for parents across the land. (The latest statistics show 120,000 arrests for pot possession and sale in 1969.) It was all part of a typical week in what sometimes seems to be the true class warfare: the strain between the young and the old. In Massachusetts, on the Cambridge Common last week, for example, 100 white youths staged a raucous celebration of Black Panther Huey Newton's release from prison. Police ended the party with tear gas. In Oklahoma, hundreds tried to attend a banned rock festival in Turner Falls Park...
...look up to them. Now that many refuse to do either, the task is even harder. One who has thought a lot about the subject is Tracy I. Gray Jr., 16, who will be a senior this fall at Evanston (Ill.) High School. Though Tracy is black, and the strain between the generations is often especially acute in Black America, he gets along extremely well with his parents, who operate a family upholstery business in Evanston. He understands that he must educate them, but also that they must educate...
Production Explosion. The Green Revolution dawned in 1944, when four young men funded by the Rockefeller Foundation gathered in the hills outside Mexico City and began experimenting with what eventually became a strain of unusually hardy, plump-grained wheat. Buoyed by their success, the Rockefeller Foundation joined with the Ford Foundation in 1962 and began work at Los Banos in the Philippines on an equally miraculous rice strain. The result was IR5 and IR8, experimentally introduced in 1964. Their arrival touched off a production explosion in the grain bowls of the world...