Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked unwontedly grave, nervously kneaded his hands, and said rather awkwardly that he looked forward to "the information and wisdom that you will want to impart upon me in your talks." Trudeau had every reason to be wary. His government is upset over U.S. attitudes on oil imports and wheat prices. It is apprehensive about Nixon's Safeguard ABM system. It is engaged in an intensive review of foreign and defense policy. Canada has already decided to establish full diplomatic relations with Red China, and very soon will decide whether to continue its membership in NATO...
...decided to see the world, which for him, was the United States. He went as far west as Fargo, N. Dak., and held a variety of jobs including pitching hay and thrashing wheat...
...With heavy fertilization, the dwarf wheat, which stands 18 inches high, half as tall as ordinary wheat, can bear more grain without toppling over...
...Hardy Dwarf. The keys to India's new progress are the wheat and rice strains developed by the Philippine International Rice Research Institute and by the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico during the past two decades. Using dwarf grain genes imported from Japan, Rockefeller researchers developed a group of short, sturdy, thick-stalked "Mexican" grains so impervious to seasonal light changes that they can produce two or three crops a year.* Following the disastrous 1965-67 drought, Indian farmers, with intensive field aid from the Ford Foundation, planted some 20 million acres of the new Mexican wheat. The results turned...
...rangy (6 ft.), wheat-thatched...