Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, the primary requisite for truly suave Chinese eating is the use of chopsticks. With five minutes practice, nearly everyone can finish a meal with chopsticks his first try. The food really tastes better, too, because the chopsticks, made of dry bamboo, leave no metallic taste. And since the food is placed on an individual bowl of rice from the communal bowl, various sauces soak the rice, leaving an exciting composite of tastes...
Finally, there should be some sort of vegetable. Chel Shar Din is a favorite of many. It consists of diced vegetables, such as celery, water chestnuts and bamboo shoot, mixed with bits of fried pork for flavor. Actually, though, any place of mixed greens will do admirably...
...where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first come upon a neighboring band's Judas, so much the better-they whack it up with glee. By noon Haiti is strewn with...
Their smoky, orange-red torches of bamboo and pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the unity they had found in their common peril, that they could celebrate amidst such desolation...
...area around Phat Diem, only 62 miles south of Hanoi. The French replied by moving in .three mobile groups (each comparable to a U.S. regimental combat team), supported by French navy units. In a wide encircling movement, the French pinned down a section of the Communist forces in a bamboo-screened village...