Word: planted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi, the streets of Afghanistan were thronged with shouting people, and everywhere-along the roads, and in medieval-looking Kabul-there was evidence of Russian achievement: the road to town was Soviet built, so were a silo and a milling and baking plant, so was a housing project. (U.S. aid has gone mostly for technical-assistance projects in the back country.) In his luncheon toast to the Moslem King, Ike stressed mutual "great spiritual values" and readiness to "advance the cause of freedom." The King, too, told Ike his troubles and seemed delighted that the President could understand his urgent...
Perhaps Santa ought to be left alone for a while, like a Passion Play one takes out of mothballs only every ten years or so. In the meantime, we can make do with Christmas trees and holly, turkeys, cranberry sauce and mistletoe (which is, thank goodness, only a plant). Then our days would be merry and bright, and all our Christmases, pristine white...
...physical plant is impressive. Living quarters and the classroom are striking and comfortable, and the setting is rarely equaled anywhere. Horses for riding and a swimming pool are readily accessible, and the meals are of the home-cooked variety. The setting is so lovely that an occasional honeymoon couple enrolls in one of the sessions...
...Revell Inc.'s Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant. The build-it-yourself kit includes a reactor, steam generator, and power-transmitting equipment. List price...
...from Michigan who specialized in ferreting out waste of the taxpayers' money, became the terror of free-spending bureaucrats and servicemen; from injuries suffered in a traffic accident; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dogged, chunky Al Engel was forever going off on solitary investigations, once (1943) covered 48 war plants in 44 days by driving day and night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally he blundered: he urged a reporter to expose a crackpot...