Word: seed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teen-agers and young-adult beatniks have started an out-of-season run on seed stores, buying up morning-glory seeds. Far from representing an interest in gardening, this trend is part of a feverish search for kicks. The word has got around, said the Food and Drug Administration, that the seeds of some varieties of the morning glory contain drugs, chemically related to LSD-25, that will induce other-worldly hallucinations. The two favorite varieties are called, of all things, "Heavenly Blue" and "Pearly Gates...
Island of Love is a big-time operator's manual on how to turn a drowsy little Greek island into the Catskills of the charter-flight set. Con Man Robert Preston and his pal Tony Randall seed the waters around the island with phony erotic antiques to revive a legend that the place used to be an old Aegean orgy ground. With the innocent help of Georgia Moll, the trick works, and soon the island is swinging with so many foreign tourists in native costume that it resembles United Nations Day at a free-love camp. Everybody is holding...
Both crewmen and superiors are forever saying things to Kennedy that 20 years later they probably wish they had not. "You got a brain like a seed pearl," splutters one sailor after Lieut, (j.g.) Kennedy has accidentally dumped a bucket of dirty water over him. And the running gag all through PT 109 is oh-boy-think-of-talking-like-that-to-the-President-of-the-U.S. But nothing upsets Kennedy's dedication to duty, and sometimes he sounds as if he were rehearsing an inaugural address at some happier future time. "Think these men will...
...books "by dirty-fingered authors" from the Trib's weekly bestseller list. Washington Star Vice President Benjamin McKelway confessed that he rejected the play without having seen it. Safe & Solid. Otherwise, the awards were what many a commentator termed "safe and solid"-and about as controversial as a seed catalogue. Posthumous prizes went to Physician-Poet William Carlos Williams for Pictures from Brueghel and to Novelist William Faulkner for The Reivers (his second Pulitzer). Other second-time winners: Composer Samuel Barber for Piano Concerto No. 1, and New York Timesman Anthony Lewis, winner of the $1,000 national reporting...
...Peaceable Revolution. Freeman's bureaucratic beanstalk grew from a very small seed. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, first head of the Patent Office, was keenly interested in agriculture, and in 1839 he managed to get from Congress an appropriation of $1,000 to distribute new plants and gather agricultural statistics. Agriculture remained a division of the Patent Office until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing a separate department under a Commissioner of Agriculture.* Lincoln said that Agriculture was "peculiarly the people's department, in which they feel more directly concerned than any other." Since about 60% of Americans...