Word: yam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honeycomb. The running fight around the Catholic refugee village 40 miles southeast of Saigon (ironically, Binhgia translates as "Peaceful House") was a testimonial to Viet Cong cunning. Government paratroopers discovered one of their adversaries' main camps. Circular in shape, it was crisscrossed with trenches camouflaged by fast-growing yam plants and running for hundreds of yards among concealed barracks roofed with thatch. Below the redoubt were huge, man-made caverns 60 feet underground, honeycombed with tunnels. At one point, eight tunnels converged into a large subterranean room that was complete with tables, chairs and Viet Cong flags...
...natural progesterone secreted in women's glands is not very potent when taken by mouth. But since 1951, laboratory experts have been making chemically related substances, now known as progestins, from such unlikely raw materials as the root of the Mexican giant yam. Some of these synthetics are far more potent than natural progesterone-at least for preventing ovulation. The two best known are norethynodrel, the main ingredient in Enovid, and norethindrone, used in the other contraceptive pills now marketed in the U.S. and by various manufacturers around the world...
...Yam & Eggs. Osagyefo, the Redeemer, was in his worst jam since Ghana became independent in 1957. Over the past two months, 15 Ghanaians have been killed, more than 250 injured in a series of explosions, and terrorists have scrawled the words NKRUMAH ABDICATE OR MORE BOMBS on buildings in Accra. Nkrumah himself, while touring a border village in August, caught a shoulderful of shrapnel...
...Witty, yam-shaped Democrat Di Salle, Harry Truman's price stabilization chief during the Korean war, is now Governor of Ohio. People still call him Mike, but after his present term, he may no longer be Governor. Di Salle faces a strenuous battle this fall against Republican State Auditor James A. Rhodes. A Di Salle-v.-Rhodes contest would confront voters with a clear-cut choice between differing concepts of government. Di Salle, 54, is a welfare-stater who in 1959 pushed through the legislature a $300 million increase in state taxes. Rhodes, 53, will be running...
...have rigorously educated the public eye. Filmed on the cheap ($90,000) by an obscure, 30-year-old film critic (Jean-Luc Godard) of the French New Wave, Breathless would seem to offer little to the average star-struck spectator-it features a Hollywood reject (Jean Seberg) and a yam-nosed anonymity (Jean-Paul Belmondo). What's more, it asks the moviegoer to spend 89 minutes sitting still for a jaggedly abstract piece of visual music that is often about as easy to watch as Schoenberg is to listen to. Then why, in the last year, has this picture...