Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...descended Afrikaner is concerned, he is again in the laager, barricaded against a hostile world. Behind him are 300 years of white baasskap (bossdom) in a land he knows is his. His Dutch Reformed Church preaches apartheid, tells him that black men are fit only to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and assures him that God is on his side. He lives in isolation from the rest of the world, which he does not understand and he is sure does not understand...
Verwoerd often boasts that the blacks of South Africa are better off than anywhere else on the continent. Economically he is right. What with decent paychecks (minimum daily wage for an unskilled laborer is $2.80) and easy credit, many an urban African can afford to buy imbuia wood furniture for his dining room, neat school uniforms for his children, and in some cases even a car for himself. Every year countless thousands of blacks from nearby countries flood into the republic looking for work-and the bright lights of the city life...
...newspaper does not die suddenly. It is slowly consumed by disease that spreads throughout the structure. First it loses a vivid editor, then its best reporters, then its power to lure talent and youth. It dies because advertising shrinks and economies prune live branches with the dead wood; it dies because unions want more money and it has none to give. Yet it dies hard, lingering on until even the stubbornest owners realize that the only answer is a mercy killing...
...Here, intimacy, in the humanist sense, develops,"says Teacher Ron Wood. And inevitably, with intimacy comes romance, and sometimes marriage. Newlyweds can stay on in the singles' paradise until they find an apartment of their own somewhere in the outside world. Then they pack up and leave, abandoning their pads to the eager singles at the top of the waiting list...
...safety code calling for the use of preloaded, factory-made model rocket engines instead of home-mixed propellants, recovery parachutes in the birds, and 13 other pointers on the gingerly care of miniature Titans. Among the strictures in the pledge: "My model rockets will not contain explosive warheads." Wood and paper are specified as the safest materials for construction. "This way," explains N.A.R. Executive Director James Kukowski, "even if an engine does explode, you get nothing but confetti...