Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their loaves. By early spring, a furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others indulge at the rate of five ounces or more...
Price-cutting has started as the five major wheat exporters-France, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Argentina -unload stockpiles below the price minimums set by the International Grains Agreement in 1967. France opened negotiations with Red China on a deal to unload soft wheat. Not wanting to be left holding a surplus, the U.S. followed by underselling grain to Germany and Britain. Canadian farmers, prevented by the strait-laced Canadian Wheat Board from breaking the Grains Agreement, could only fume as prices fell. The board finally relented after it became apparent that a free-for-all was shaping...
...meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky. "He'd seen me at Bazaar," she recalls, "and offered me $100 a week, twice what I was making. I was married then, and needed the money. Before I left, Diana Vreeland warned me, 'You can't leave now. You don't know enough.' " But Ali learns quickly, and she soon made herself a permanent studio fixture. She did everything: made up the models, adjusted the lighting, hunted for an endless variety of photographer's props all over...
...exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared in the early 1960s to fill it, her belle-dame-sans-merci credentials already well in hand...
...senior left fielder has nearly doubled his batting average in the last three weeks. Through eight games he hit a mere .188, but now he is second on the team with 19 hits and third in the standings with a .328 season average overall...