Word: carrot
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...Sacred Button. Peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee) is a small, carrot-shaped cactus that grows wild in the valley of the Rio Grande. Cut off and dried, its top forms a bitter-tasting "button" that, eaten or brewed as tea, is capable of strong and strange effects upon the mind. Just what the effects are has not yet been scientifically determined.* The Indians have known about peyote for centuries; Cortez' men found the Aztecs using it when they invaded Mexico. It has always been associated with religious ceremony...
...critic as coming "perilously close to academicism." But Paul Cézanne, who was no academician, would have approved Koerner's Mother and Child (opposite) for its delicate interplay of geometric planes. The master might even have envied its draftsmanship. The plain young mother and her beefy, carrot-topped boy are treated as coolly as a still life, yet his energy and her weariness are perfectly conveyed...
...leadership, it must come from him. This fact is no reflection upon Senator Knowland, Vice President Nixon, House Speaker Joe Martin and their lieutenants. For a generation, no congressional figure of either party has been able to exercise congressional leadership in the old sense. Martin, Knowland & Co. have no carrot, no stick-except as the President, by arousing public interest in his program, can provide them with carrots and sticks. Significantly, President Eisenhower began the political year 1954 by going to the people with a preview of his program (see above). If he succeeds in arousing and maintaining public interest...
Dumbbells and Carrot Strips, by Mary Macfadden and Emile Gauvreau. Rollicking memoirs of 17 years with Bernarr Macfadden, by an ex-wife (TIME, April...
Dumbbells and Carrot Strips, by Mary Macfadden and Emile Gauvreau. Rollicking memoirs of 17 years with Bernarr Macfadden, by an ex-wife (TIME, April...