Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past Agriculture research projects have come frozen orange juice and instant mashed potatoes, stretch-cotton fabrics and machine-washable woolens, cheaper penicillin and longer-lasting blood plasma. Projects now in the works promise a wild-green-yonder of even greater farm abundance-and, of course, threaten bigger surpluses. The department's scientists are breeding new, higher-yielding varieties of wheat; they are trying to devise ways of making grain crops and grasses add nitrogen to the soil instead of subtracting it; they are combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then...
...jeans, a commodity the Kremlin had always disdained as a capitalist fad worn only by parasites. Nonsense, declared Izvestia, "Texas trousers" are "very useful," adding reassuringly that "the origin of blue jeans is not with Hollywood movie stars, but with real cowboys, who don't take part in wild chases and romantic gunplay, but in honest and hard work...
...lonely public house perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...
...house committee sponsors cartoon shows and wild annual Bierstube; the music committee presents student and professional concerts; the Ford Foundation fund supports a wide variety of dinner guests and speakers; and from a variety of sources comes the boar's head ceremony and ribald play after the Christmas dinner...
...Cassius is no bum, he is no pugilistic patrician, either. After his narrow first-round recovery he was shaken again in rounds four and seven. Clay's offense was wild and ineffective on the inside and even the few solid punches that Jones couldn't deflect did little damage to the small Harlem heavyweight. Only in round three did Clay connect with a series of sharp jabs and combinations...