Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political way started calling her by the nickname Erh Kan-tzu, literally Two Stalks, because her legs were skinny and she strutted about on them in brave style. She had lost weight because she was subsisting on very little, eating almost nothing, just two shao-ping (wheat-flour pancakes common to North China) a day. And she cut corners in other ways. Why was she so concerned about saving money? "To pay off Li Ta-chang!" she responded brightly, refusing to elaborate, but implying that for her at least there was a price on Party membership...
...suggest the U.S. Government stop helping the Kremlin regime in its repressive actions by selling wheat to the U.S.S.R. Without food in the markets, more Soviet citizens might decide the iron claw of Communism isn't so nice and decide to do something about...
...good that he has yet to and will probably never lose a collegiate match. That last Sunday in Annapolis he put to rest any doubts that he was the best around the campus by disposing of Western Ontario's Phil Mohtadi (Western Ontario imports racquetmen like Russia does wheat). That he plays with the likes of Sheriff Khan, who is the best in the world...
...Midwest's dry period presents at least an equal threat of disaster. The danger is twofold: a lack of moisture to nourish either the winter wheat crop, already in the ground, or the crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed...
...another four years in a row. "Are those people in the right line of work?" he asked. "Maybe Mother Nature is trying to tell us something." Americans, Miewald suggested, "might even have to forfeit the sacred right to have a green lawn" when water is scarce for growing wheat. "The era of abundance is over...