Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government encouraged the farmers of Cass County, Mich., to cultivate marijuana. It was known then as hemp, and thought to be useful mainly for the World War II production of rope. The farmers of Cass County and some other parts of the U.S. sowed the weed in home-front zeal...
Sirik Matak's zeal may eventually cause trouble in a country that reveres Buddha, not St. George. But his decisive style pleases Westerners, particularly the U.S. embassy officials who have already funneled $252.5 million in military and economic aid into the embattled country...
Died. Ejnar Mikkelsen, 90, Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner...
...Verbal Zeal. If Britain comes into the Common Market, the French fear, so will Ireland, Norway and Denmark, and all of them recognize English as the language of international diplomacy and business. Should the Six become the Ten, pressures to make English the working language of the European Community would rise in The Netherlands, Germany and Italy, where English is the standard second language. Eventually, Paris worries, French could dwindle to a mere regional language, current only in France, Monaco, French-speaking Switzerland and among the 3,109,000 Walloons of Belgium...
Salaries begin at around 24.5 yuan or $10 a month for a peasant on a commune-an amount that varies by a system of "work points" awarded according to the work he does, his political zeal, and the harvest. The upper range is around $100 a month for a young army general or experienced technician. But rents are low, from $1 to $3 for a typical one-or two-room apartment. Vegetables in season cost only 1½? to 2? per lb., rice 7? per lb., and meat from 20? to 40? per lb. Milk is higher...