Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good flavor; but there must also be meat cunning little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
Juniors who returned to Cambridge in the fall had to wind their way though groups of carpenters and bricklayers as they hurried top registration surge of building that marked the last few years of President Lowell's administration saw six new edifices mushroom on the campus with still more on the drawing boards. Lionel, Mower, Straus, Lehman, McKinlock and the Fogg Museum would soon be ready for use, and across the river workmen were digging the foundations for the new Business School...
...mushroom-clouded dawn of the Atomic Age, dark as it was with fresh dangers for the human race, there shone a ray of brilliant promise; the sudden abundance of radioactive elements gave medical researchers their most important new tools since the invention of the microscope. For five years now, physicians and biochemists have been learning to handle them...
...center panel, the mushroom cloud of an atomic-bomb explosion rose over scenes of destruction, flint-faced firing squads in U.S. uniforms, crucified and gibbeted North Koreans. At the left stood a benign Stalin, filially flanked by a boyish Mao Tse-tung, who held out the Red dove of peace to three glum cartoon villains-a gun-toting, Bible-clutching Uncle Sam, a fist-clenching John Bull, and a somewhat hung-over Marianne...
...platform and waited for the dinner. The spotlights went off and the waiters trooped in with silver urns full of Cream of Chicken Soup. There were also croutons which the Press Table's waiter managed to spread neatly all over the newsmen. Then came steaks with mushroom sauce, and lastly, "Ice Cream Ring Aux Fraises" complete with liqueur sauce. "You could get drunk on this," warned the reporter sitting next...