Word: melone
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...Tastefully dressed in a pale green turtleneck, matching jacket and slacks, Taoka, who is recuperating from a heart ailment, played the solicitous host to perfection. He offered his caller a delectable piece of green melon and then launched into a professorial discourse on social ills. Many of his followers, he said, were low-caste buraku-min (TIME. Jan. 8), social misfits who had suffered from discrimination. Since the government offered no help for them. Taoka had taken on the responsibility. 'What I need now,' he declared, 'is the services of some scholars in finding ways and means...
...Clark station on 100th street and I went to Harvard and he pumped gas and it was all so absurd because he was caddy of the year twice and I was just a not-so-close runner-up. We called him melonhead then or just plain 'melon' because his older brother who was in the state funny farm at Vandalia had an outsized head and the name was passed...
...more. He has to take a position on style and fashion, believe in it and explain it to the consumer." Sakowitz's position now is that the big seller in women's clothes for next spring will be "soft sherbet colors, milky colors -like elegant apricot, lime, melon and strawberry...
...handle the big loads, the new waste companies must be markedly different from the old, small-time collectors, with their rusted-out dump trucks trundling loads of melon rinds and empty bottles to their final rest in the city dump. The modern companies process refuse by shredding, compacting or baling it before hauling it to landfills, which cost $4,000 to $10,000 an acre. The companies operate fleets of $25,000 tractors, $35,000 trucks and $80,000 bulldozers. Unable to afford these capital outlays, many of the nation's 10,000 small collection companies are merging with...
...JOURNAL continues through the ripening of the farm's watermelon crop, through the harvest, and through Jeff's enlightening journey to New York with a truckload of melon--where he peddles most of them on the streets, manages to rip the Fillmore East off for an order of 40 melon at $5 apiece, and ends up hawking a lot more from the Fillmore stage between sets of a two-night Grand Funk Railroad orgy. And in a post-script, the journal looks back from April 1971 at what happened to Jeffrey Golden in the summer...