Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Natural gibberellin governs the growth and reproductive activity of plants, stimulating cells to divide and expand. Farmers cultivate a certain type of fungus to produce large quantities of the chemical. The use the extract to spur agricultural production and produce oversized fruits and vegetables...
...learned that the acronym stands for East Central Reliability Council, a group of utility companies. They were to learn more from Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, who wrote his constituents: "Air Force to do EIS on PAVE PAWS." Translation: there was to be an environmental impact statement about a type of radar: Precision Acquisition of Vehicle Entry-Phased Array Warning System...
...this era of sexual emancipation are parents as uptight as of yore in discussing sex with their kids? Yes, indeed. That at least was the word last week from a Kinsey-type study called Family Life and Sexual Learning, prepared by the Project on Human Sexual Development. The researchers spent three years probing the attitudes of 1,400 mostly young Cleveland parents and concluded that they are as reticent in talking about sex as their parents were. The report's highlights...
...performances as they went along. The elements that would form the Muppet style were coming together. Only dialogue was missing, and this appeared in primitive form when they signed to do a series of commercials for Wilkins coffee. In the first of these, a happy character asked a grouchy type what he thought of the coffee. The grouch said he had never tried it. Happy produced a cannon and blasted Grouch. Then he turned his cannon on the audience and asked: "What do you think of Wilkins coffee?" Sounding weary in the recollection, Henson admits, "We did about...
...national habit of self-improvement, which was going strong when Public Man Ben Franklin was its high priest. Broadly, the premise of the "me decade" view is that great numbers of people are disdaining society to pursue existence as narcissistic massage buffs, om-sayers, encounter groupies and peacocks. The type is to be found, true, but the number seems very small. A thousand times as many Americans are to be found at any time -around hospitals, churches, offices, schools, neighborhoods -all as lost as ever in the volunteerism that has been a striking phenomenon of the national character since Tocqueville...