Word: bowlfull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Wu was jerked to his feet, stripped of his grey jacket. His arms were bound from behind with thin cord. He was led to a table for his last meal; his grim-jawed captors fed him a bowlful of noodles and poured a swig of hot rice wine through...
By American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a...
Hats were not so bad. Most of them actually looked like hats. The freaks of 1946 were gone. Naturally, if a woman wanted to, she could still manage to get loaded down with a bowlful of fruit or a portable flower garden. But most husbands could see their wives in...
China was sick with inflation. Somehow a nation whose masses had always lived close to bare subsistence could endure the shortage of goods, the 360% rise in the cost of living. It could wear threadbare cotton garments more threadbare; it could do with a daily bowlful less of rice. But...
If anyone does not know how these ingredients taste, let him whip a quart of the thickest cream, mix the best green salad he knows how, pour a tumblerful of creme de menthe. cook up a bowlful of spicy Hungarian goulash-then mix them all rapidly in a tureen and...