Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more hardships, the old days seemed the best days. At week's end a 42-year-old Tokyo factory worker, Hiroshi Hori, took his wife and five children to view the cherry blossoms in Sumida Park. When they got home Mrs. Hori cooked up some bitter-tasting bean" paste for supper. The four younger children refused to eat it. Next morning they found their father, mother and eldest sister dead of cyanide poisoning. "Due to living difficulties," once-wealthy Father Hori had written, "the family is committing suicide...
Between the Bean-Rows...
...Reid and [Mandel] Cohen for injecting a little common sense into all this "natural childbirth" farrago [TIME, March 13]. Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read and his cohorts have got women feeling that they're hopeless neurotics if they don't have their baby between the bean-rows and get back to the harvest in 15 minutes...
...young composer, a bespectacled string-bean of a man named Sergei Prokofiev, made some revisions and the Chicago company decided to produce it after all. It flopped. Prokofiev got to conduct his The Love for Three Oranges three times-twice in Chicago in 1921, once in Manhattan in 1922. Then, disappointed, he took off for Paris, and, eventually, for Russia. Only the pert little march from the Three Oranges lingered...
...Patrician Rebel. When the duchess heard of Bernardez' arrest, she still had time to flee. Instead, she chose to stay. When she was nine and a convent student, Luisa Maria had upset a plate of bean soup in protest against the quality of convent food. Reprimanded, she upset the inkwell on the mother superior's desk. Last week, still a rebel, the duchess made the rounds of Madrid's foreign embassies and newsmen, hoping that publicity would help her arrested friends...