Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flexibility. There has been some advance planning, and there appear to be no rigid output targets. In fact, Peking is admonishing local officials to "leave enough leeway." Though not too much, of course. The goal of the latest campaign, as Shanghai radio explained it recently, is "a fruit that can be picked by jumping and reaching up, not a fruit that can be taken by stretching out one's arm from a lying or sitting position...
...HUGE mirror covered one wall of the room. A few chairs were scattered around. Two tables were cluttered with empty wine bottles plastic fruit, masks, and a rubber chicken. Several large black rubber mats lay on the floor -- where the 12 bodies were stretched...
...many as in 1950?and most were conglomerate mergers. Hardly any corporation, no matter how large, seems wholly safe from the grasp of conglomerates. During the past two years, conglomerates have absorbed or gained control of such big and basic enterprises as Jones & Laughlin Steel, Lorillard, Wilson, United Fruit and Armour. Lately, relative newcomers to the corporate scene have attempted to take over Sinclair Oil, B. F. Goodrich, Allis Chalmers and mammoth A & P. Even Pan American World Airways, long considered to be practically an unofficial agency of the U.S. Government, feels threatened by Resorts International, a onetime paintmaking company...
...pitfalls of scientific biography-the depressing fact that the research that makes famous scientists famous in the first place is virtually incommunicable to the general public. Haldane's great, obsessive scientific passion, for instance, was the genetic structure of Drosophila, a particular variety of the common fruit fly, an absorption that only another scientist, or another Drosophila, could reasonably be expected to share...
Harvard and Radcliffe students will be picking fruit in Cuba this summer under the joint sponsorship of the Cuban government and national Students for a Democratic Society...