Word: melon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hothouse valleys of California, acres of strawberries and asparagus last week were spoiling in the fields while growers looked with foreboding to the summer's melon and lettuce harvest. Al though the state has nearly 440,000 un employed, it faces a severe farm-labor shortage and huge losses in its biggest ($3.5 billion) industry - farming...
This season the industry's ugly duckling is getting the full beauty treatment by manufacturers intent on covering the whole market. The thermal now comes in wool, rayon, Dacron, Creslan and Acrilan, as well as the popular cotton, and in shades like curry, persimmon, melon, hollyhock, sand and avocado. It may be bound in velvet or nylon suede, patterned in flowers and leaves, checks and tweeds, stripes and plaids...
...dogs, pickles, and cheese blintzes during a walking tour of the predominantly Jewish Lower East Side. Keating is a familiar figure there, and one sign that greeted him read: KEATING AND ISRAEL go TOGETHER LIKE BAGELS AND LOX. In that same district, Bobby spurned the ethnic diet, chose melon, split-pea soup and chocolate milk. In lower Manhattan's "Little Italy," he asked for a fork when someone offered him a slice of pizza. "You don't need a fork," he was gently advised...
...dirtiest, liveliest and loveliest capital in the Middle East. Surging traffic bewilders a stranger, with tramcars plunging the wrong way down one-way streets, pedestrians and pushcarts jaywalking heedlessly. Garbage lies uncollected around stunning glass-walled apartment buildings, and any car parked below is certain to be littered by melon rinds and pistachio shells tossed from the balconies and windows. As fast as the police write out traffic tickets, motorists throw them away, and cars are double-and triple-parked all over town...
...Tucson House shopper simply summons Gorman by telephone, then switches her set to Channel 2. Is the lettuce crisp? The corn ripe? She can inspect each item as closely as could be without actual melon tunking or peach squeezing. Gorman rings up the order under her watchful eye, then hangs up the phone. The groceries are delivered within minutes. The lady need never get dressed. Gorman cannot inspect...