Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making villages self-sufficient. In some areas, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops spend at least half of each day planting crops and cutting wood...
This year Secretariat has won four races out of five. At the 1⅛-mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in late April, he ran third, behind Angle Light and Sham. Nobody will ever be sure what went wrong that day. Turcotte is inclined to blame himself. Giving the horse his final speed work four days before the race, Turcotte sent him a mile in 1.42%. A fair workout for most horses-but a heavy eater like Secretariat needs to extend himself between races to keep in top condition, and it might have been better if they had gone faster...
...molded plastic papoose is propped on what looks like an unscratchable table top whose resins have been stroked into a semblance of rose wood or walnut. A bowl of wax fruit pledges eternal ripeness. An imitation slate counter neatly divides the family room from the kitchen area. Through an expanse of sliding glass doors, the electric company's pylons can be seen striding across the valley, a step ahead of the subdivisions...
...shortage in the market. This drives up grain prices, which has a direct bearing on livestock feed-lot operators and eventually on consumers." Other commodities are being similarly afflicted; for instance, skyrocketing lumber prices have been blamed partly on a heavy demand for railroad flatcars to haul wood from mill to housing sites...
Herbert Giglotto, 29, and his wife Evelyn, 28, had gone to bed early. Suddenly the sounds of splintering wood and shouting men jolted them awake. Giglotto jumped up and headed in the direction of the noise. At the top of the stairs, he recalls now, he saw "four or five long-haired men with guns" rushing toward him. "I looked at my wife and said 'My God, we're dead. The hippies have come to kill...