Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the Soviet strategy has tipped the scales in Moscow's favor. Largely as a result of widespread devastation-which has brought high prices in the wake of shortages of labor, fuel, fertilizer and seed-Afghanistan's agriculture is fast deteriorating. According to one estimate, wheat production was five times greater in 1978 than it was last year. In the Logar province and in isolated villages around the country, entire settlements have been reduced to ghost towns...
DIED. Milton R. Young, 85, quiet-spoken Republican Senator from North Dakota (1945-81), who was dubbed "Mr. Wheat" for his farm-bloc leadership and his advocacy of constituents' agricultural interests and who served the greatest number of consecutive years for a Republican Senator; of cancer; in Sun City, Ariz...
...that were not enough, a late freeze in the Deep South left fruit and vegetable crops devastated. Heavy rains had already delayed the planting of corn, watermelon and tobacco in Georgia, and rice, wheat and cotton in Louisiana. The apple and peach farmers in the northern part of Georgia found most of their potential harvests frozen on the trees...
...always been central to English culture. No wonder, then, that Constable's following is large and loyal. His landscape is just what the English feel nostalgic for as they dodge trucks on the bypass amid the billboards and concrete goosenecks. It is conservatism writ in leaves and wheat...
...transformed by crisis into a leader: she organized the escape of 20 people of Lia, most of them women and children, down the mountains and through the line of battle. The group made it. Eleni did not. On the eve of the flight, she was ordered to harvest wheat under guerrilla supervision in fields miles away. When the escape was discovered, she was tortured, "tried" for treason, and denounced by neighbors who had envied her few pitiful "riches" from America. Then she was shot. Her last words were the cry "My children...