Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact...
Some of the reasons: New York public schools are overcrowded (in one last fall, children had to squat on tin pails and fruit baskets for lack of chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent...
...such bracero is compact, mustachioed Catalino Delgado Morales, 26. A stevedore like his father, he usually works on the United Fruit pier. About three or four days of the week his name moves high enough on the union hiring hall's list for him to get taken on. Then, togged like the rest of the gang (some 365) in old pants, shoes and T-shirt, he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo from 7 till 5. At week's end he may have earned...
...barrage of verbal tomatoes, cabbages, and assorted fruit that hit the fan following the final curtain of "I Was a King in Babylon" was received with unusual graciousness and good spirit by the Veterans Theatre Workshop. "Shamelessly and unabashedly" confessing that activity around the box-office is a necessity for continued life, the Workshop --pessimistically prophesying, at the same time, that even "the best production of the finest classic would see the same Harvard student body staying away in droves"--is frankly asking the dinner crowd at House dining halls to choose their next production...
Submitted to the Council for consideration on December 16, the constitution was returned to the Committee for further consideration in regard to class representation and the problem of Freshmen elections. With the fruit of their labors facing student approval in College-wide elections on Thursday and Friday, February 6 and 7, the Committee is preparing copies of the constitution which will be placed in all the House libraries, Common Rooms, and the Union...