Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were more than 23,000 entrants, the most ever, and the 15 winners (Japan's royalty is excluded) included a blind lady who submitted her poem in Braille, and a humble lady day laborer (of a class known to Japanese as anko, which is, in turn, a fish that is mostly mouth and stomach). The Emperor's waka (which always seems to lose a certain something in translation) went...
...Macmillan and Lady Dorothy, the fun came in strolls through Accra's colorful street markets, where mobs of merchant "mammies" screamed "Akwaaba" (welcome) and jovially spread bright kente cloth on the streets for the Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...
...towboats nursed some 80 million tons of cargo up through the 46 locks. But as a thing of beauty, the Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization-raw sewage and industrial wastes -until the great stream became an open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused river water so heavily with chemicals that the citizens howled; on its best days, the river gave off the medicinal odor of phenol poured out of coke ovens...
Sportsmen get occasional bass strikes downriver, take special hope from the Pittsburgh sanitation board's report of the first game fish sightings at the headwaters in decades. The Ohio, river named for its beauty, is becoming itself again...
...system is simple: an English student begins with consonants, learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed on a cup, d on a dish, f on a fish. Then come vowels, easy stories and eventually writing in script...