Word: melon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Valentine, You're my melancholy baby...With a head like a melon and a face like a collie...
Your entertaining piece emphasized the exotic and the expensive. There are many of us who enjoy preparing good food at home, yet do not need and cannot afford $4 for one melon, $75 for a single class, or $65,000 kitchens...
...swept, ordered, prosperous. The happy people of Huhsien county are the last Arcadians. Socialism, as it were, equals Ovid plus electricity. Their sacks of grain bulge like the bellies of good-luck gods. Every bulb of garlic in their fields is the size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images of Good Government. In this land, imagination goes about its business with methodical certainty. There...
...saqueros, melon-sack workers, have the hardest job and are the most militant workers. They move through the fields in a bent-over position, cut and pick melons, and load up a sack on their back. When full, it weighs 70-80 lbs. and they have to run up the planks to the truck and dump the melons. It can happen that, to keep the pace, the truck starts moving while someone is still on a plank, and he falls and injures himself...
...work. However the saqueros were so strong for the UFW that they wrote and signed a petition to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to hold the elections a few days earlier. Facing about 170 signatures, nearly all of the affected workers, the NLRB divided the election so that the melon sack workers could vote at the end of the last work week, instead of the middle of the next week. Thanks mainly to the saqueros, we won the election...