Word: catchup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Felix was made of sterner stuff. When he went to work as a restaurant bus boy in Houston, he started with the word "catchup," painfully taught himself to speak, read and write excellent English. Today, at 54, Felix Tijerina owns a chain of thriving Texas restaurants, is president of the nationwide League of United Latin American Citizens. But civic-minded Restaurateur Tijerina has not stopped there. In his spare time, busy as a platoon of pedagogues, he has launched an assault on the language barrier. By last week Tijerina had worked out a method that may spread among Spanish-speaking...
Brought in to reform Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...
Peptic ulcer victims, who have long been condemned by most physicians to insipid Sippy diets,* should throw away their lists of forbidden foods, feel free to eat fried fish and potatoes topped with catchup, if that happens to be what they like. So said the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart G. Wolf last week. Main thing, he told the American Academy of General Practice, is not to restrict what the ulcer patient eats but to do something positive about how often he eats-and that should be every two or three hours, counting the inevitable glass of milk...