Word: borsche
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...said enough to prove almost any side of any case. Moreover, he naturally had different views as a frustrated exile, as a revolutionary organizing street fights in Russia, and as the head of a government. Thus the battle of Lenin quotations could go on until won ton turns to borsch, but in essence it shapes up something like this...
...Orthodox Jewish family to England in 1938, and she spent two years interned in a British camp on the Isle of Man. She had an international repertoire of folk songs by the time she left England, but when she came to the U.S. in 1948, she rarely escaped the Borsch Belt and Hadassah-club audiences that wanted a strictly Kosher diet of Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Since then, she has made four albums of international folk songs, but record stores are still likely to keep her in the Jewish bin; when she packed Town Hall for her first New York...
...synchronized their watches and headed for the store, took their positions, and waited impatiently for H-hour. At last it came: sweeping through their assigned sectors, the 40 people began sticking small cards in the merchandise-on top of a ham, beneath cans of dog food, behind jars of borsch. They worked swiftly, disappeared leaving only the cards, which read: THIS HAS BEEN INSPECTED FOR YOUR TABLE BY A REAL GOOD COMMUNIST...
...whole catalogue of gifts bestowed on it by the Old World-the horse, borsch, Rudolf Bing, pizza, trial by jury, Pfannkuchen, the English sparrow and crab grass. Most arrived more or less by acceptable means, but the suburban affliction defined as "a grass with creeping or decumbent stems which root freely at the nodes" sneaked in. How it made the trip is a mystery. Perhaps, many years ago, it stole out of some Portuguese garden into the sea, and, just following its nodes, crept along the ocean floor like a living cable till it reached The Bronx. Not satisfied there...
...competition of ideas: capitalism v. Communism, free enterprise v. state control. And here in 1959, the true strength of the U.S. was in the spread of its ideas through deeds and example around the globe. More and more nations demonstrated that they are not interested in Russian borsch or communal Chinese gruel. Having tasted free enterprise, they are determined to sit down to the entire meal. The position of the U.S. was never stronger. But it would have to keep on exercising its leadership. FRB's Martin puts it flatly: "The U.S. faces the '60s with the world...