Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Coddington estimated that approximately 20,000 discoveries are "lying fallow" because private industry is hesitant to invest in government-owned patents, to which they cannot obtain exclusive rights...
...experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...
...beach: endless, empty stretches of white sand glimmering in the roseate reflection of billions of tiny shells. Barbuda (pronounced Ear-byou-duh), which has one of the Caribbean's few bird sanctuaries, also offers the area's best hunting: white crown pigeon, guinea hen, duck, fallow deer and feral boar...
...Crimson, inactive since December 29, evidently had been lying fallow too long...