Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushroom cloud set off in the Supreme Soviet appeared the familiar, forbidding face of Vyacheslav Molotov, the great unsinkable of the Communist Revolution. His duty was plain: to obscure their moment of serious internal weakness, the Soviet leaders had called out the Old Bolshevik to convince everyone that the Soviet Union is really hale, hearty and tough...
...disastrous effect on Brazilian workers. The real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas in Rio in 1949, 124,000 in 1950; today there are some 400,000, and the national total runs into millions...
...perpetual student joined the party that promised to heal all wounds, including inferiority complexes. The Invisible Writing tells the next stage of Koestler's intellectual vaga bondage, through the labyrinthine ways of Marxism, to safe harbor in London, where he will "live happily ever after, until the Great Mushroom appears in the skies." Along the way Koestler compiles from skulls, rusted barbed wire and interviews with shattered survivors, the history of his old regiment-the commissars, apparatchiki, intellectual spivs, poets, peasants, pimps, betrayers and betrayed, who composed his "crusade without a cross...
...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
...jolted Chestertown for a full 50 minutes; then, for four hours, rockets sporadically whistled skyward and briefly flashed. Some townsfolk had seen a jet plane, or two, or three, flying over seconds before the first detonation. Others watched the grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns, the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps...