Word: weede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planters in Britain's steamy Latin American colony of British Guiana, one of life's great irritations has long been the weeds and grass that flourish in Guiana's irrigation and drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel...
Allsopp's inspiration came when he noticed that the manatees in the Georgetown Botanic Gardens nibbled their pool so clean of weeds that they had to be fed large quantities of grass. So he put two manatees in a weed-grown irrigation canal 22 ft. wide and nearly a mile long. In 17 weeks they had it clear and kept it that way. Allsopp figured that each of the manatees consumed more than 100 lbs. of forage...
...fishermen to net the harmless beasts gently (despite their 8-ft. length, manatees are easily bruised or drowned) in the jungle rivers, and he rigged a laboratory truck with a sort of canvas bath to carry them to the ditches. He now has 31 at work, happily chewing water weeds throughout the colony, and 65 more have been ordered from the fishermen. Inquiries about manatees as ditch cleaners have come from Thailand, Ceylon, Malaya and other weed-bothered tropical countries...
...slashing bestsellers (Native Son, Black Boy) scarred the conscience of white America more deeply than the works of any other Negro writer of his time; of a heart attack; in Paris, where he had lived as an expatriate since 1948. Mississippi plantation-born, Wright grew up "naturally as a weed" in the noisome shadows of saloons and whorehouses, left home at 15 and drifted from one menial job to another until he turned to writing "because I was not prepared to be anything else." A depression-era Communist who broke with the party in the 1940s, Wright took the position...
...position somewhat, but still agreed to press for Administrative action against the Navy Department's sponsorship of the film. Neither this recommendation, nor the attempted discourteous "sing-in" protest staged during the film, smack of liberalism, a political philosophy that places confidence in the free market of ideas to weed fact from propaganda...