Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only girls in off-campus houses can keep large stores of food in their own refrigerators. Girls in the brick dormitories, however, show great resourcefulness in getting things to eat. Some keep fruit and cheese in shared refrigerators, cookies, crackers, and jelly in their rooms; some buy sandwiches, ice cream, and pizza from the vendors that come every evening; some gorge themselves at the regular meals; and some even break into the dormitory kitchens at night and walk off with great loads of snacks. Of course, there are always restaurants and Brighams...
Long Chance. Such fast moves in the past 40 years have transformed Sam Mosher from a frustrated California farmer into a successful tycoon. Struggling with his first love-raising fruit and flowers-Mosher ruefully decided that prospects might be rosier Southern California's oil fields. With $4,000 borrowed from his mother and a Government instruction booklet to guide him, Mosher in 1922 set up a small plant in Long Beach's Signal Hill oil field to wring a motor fuel ingredient out of the natural gas pumped out by the big oil companies...
...arrival at Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix, a 200-year-old Coptic church book, a silver fruit bowl inlaid with gold, a silver miniature of the Lion of Judah statue in Addis Ababa, and an autographed photo of himself in a silver frame...
...Passion Fruit to Betel Nuts...
...selection is huge: tripes a la mode de caen and cassoulet toulousain from France, passion fruit and paw-paw from Africa, canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...