Word: lichen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Garrison Because of the far-reaching effects of the class struggle, especially the Two-Road Struggle in the villages on ideology, and also the natural disaster which happened last year and this year, there is some unrest in thought among a part of our comrades. The soldier Chang Lichen said: "At present, what the peasants eat in the villages is even worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow us to starve to death?" The soldier Liu Ho-shan said: "Our country...
...savory truffle is a fungus, and so is the unsavory trifle that causes athlete's foot. Life-saving penicillin comes from one fungus (Penicillium notatum); from another comes the lichen that is slowly devouring the Parthenon. Yet another yields the drug LSD, which has been used experimentally in the treatment of schizophrenic children and alcoholics. Knowledge of the complex, infinitely various, unbelievably hardy fungus kingdom has multiplied immeasurably in the past century. In this fascinating, ambitious book by Lucy Kavaler, its villains, heroes and hopefuls are fully explained to the nonscientific reader...
...benefits to man are countless. The fragile inky cap is delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...
Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above; of injuries sustained when his glider nosedived into a macadam airstrip in Somerset, England...
...Bible after only one reading. At 12, he entered the University of Nebraska, at 17, emerged as a first-rate botanist, and between studying and practicing the law, he found time to earn a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska, which now boasts a rare lichen called roscopoundia...