Word: asparagus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnum's lush vegetable department has fresh asparagus at $2.10 a bunch, fresh peaches at $1.50 a peach, strawberries at two guineas...
...bamboo shoots, logily sitting on a log, bagged her, sold her to U.S. rarity-trappers. Third of the seven live pandas to enter the U.S., the five-week-old Bei-Shung (white bear) became Pandora of The Bronx Zoo. In her cage she prowled and played and delicately nibbled asparagus tips, a conscious comic who put even sophisticates in stitches with her improvised routines...
...first year of adventure, the Saturday Evening Post few weeks ago published the exultant story she found time to write. "No alarm clocks, no boss, no schedules . . . plenty of time just to relax and feel the ship under you. Time to stroll along the white sand, hunting wild asparagus. You can dawdle as long as you wish, watching the sou'easter that holds you in harbor...
...echelon. Where deep rivers or canals interposed, the bombing planes covered the break-through tanks while, according to other stories, water tight 30-ton amphibians wallowed in, to let bridges be built across their steel backs for the rest. Other tanks apparently carried pontoons for crossing water. Across tank asparagus, pits, ravines, special bridging tanks laid trusses. Pioneer troops slipped ahead with acetylene torches to cut away steel obstructions. Bridges reached intact they reinforced to bear the juggernauts' weight. Between planes overhead and the clanking mastodons on the ground, radio contact was kept up constantly. Timing was worked...
...Kitchen Goes to War, ration-time cookery book designed to avoid waste, achieve "variety and a well-balanced diet." Some contributors: Viscountess Astor (Haddock Fin-landais); Sir Malcolm Campbell (How to Make the Best of Your Bacon Ration); Viscountess Halifax (Savoury Haddock); H. W. ("Bunny") Austin (Tomato and Asparagus Bundles); Sir Hugh Walpole