Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultivated farm land to revert to desert. At the same time, Iran, which for ages had been all but self-sufficient, suddenly had to import more than 60% of its food products. Along with imports of food came more than 1 million foreign workers: Pakistani and Filipino truck drivers, Indian engineers, Korean and Japanese workers - to say nothing of the more than 40,000 American military and civilian personnel whose advice and training were needed for the new weapons and industries. But for most Iranians the pattern of life changed slowly, if at all. Most villages still lack piped water...
...Indian pudding, fish chowder and corned beef hash. Has Julia Child flipped her toque? No, America's most visible French chef has simply decided that it is time for a new cuisine art. On Julia Child & Company, a new television series that PBS will inaugurate in early October, she will whip up eclectic menus liberally seasoned with dishes from the U.S. Each show in the series is built around a distinctive gastronomic occasion, such as dinner for the boss or a pre-football-game lunch. "We hope to interest people in good cooking," says Child. "We want them...
...lecture circuit. They bring out record crowds for planetarium shows, and they have lately been the theme of a spate of books. In the popular lexicon, the term black hole once suggested only the legendary hellish cell in Calcutta in which British prisoners were held by an 18th century Indian nawab. Now it has become an immediately recognizable catchword for a different kind of darkness. Says one young astrophysicist...
...University of Chicago's noted Indian-born astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, when hospitalized for heart surgery, found to his delight that all his doctors and nurses seemed to want to talk about was black holes. The White House also recognizes the gravity of black holes. Upon reading a news article about them one morning, President Carter promptly asked his science adviser, Frank Press, for his thoughts. Press, whose son William happened to have done research on black holes, sheepishly confessed ignorance, explaining that he could not get through the paper so early...
...rather than soliloquize over the former Indian campground, let us move on into the Yard and see what it has to offer. Here walk the ghosts of Emerson and Thoreau, Kittredge and lots of Lowells; many of the great intellects of American history actually slept in these dorms. But that won't mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least...