Word: sandalwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Witke, was a personal victory for her.) A little later, he removed a thermos flask of liquor from his belt and silently passed it to her. At one point during her recollections, Chiang Ch'ing reached for a gold-brocaded box and drew from it a delicately carved sandalwood fan. On it, in a sample of Mao's own renowned calligraphy, was one of his poems titled "Winter Clouds...
Sophistication set in with power. He was soon bartering sandalwood and sugar for firearms. He even employed white technical advisers and directed one of them to write George III, offering allegiance in exchange for arms. The Foreign Office sent two brass speaking trumpets instead of the warship that Kamehameha hoped...
Mountains and Jungles. Indonesia's resources are as vast as the country itself, which ranks fifth in the world in population. There are 300 million acres of teak, sandalwood, ebony and other valuable timber, at least one-fortieth of the world's oil reserves under the soil and probably far more offshore, and unmeasured quantities of copper and nickel ore. Experts estimate that Ertsberg Mountain in West Irian, which is the Indonesian half of New Guinea, contains 33 million tons of copper, gold, silver and iron ore all by itself...