Word: nut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cabodos (rubber-tree tappers and Brazil-nut gatherers) who live along tributaries of the Amazon, the Caiapó Indians are bad medicine. Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
Manhattan's furred & feathered café socialites turned out for an opening meal on the house when the Gayelord Hauser "Look Younger" Menu became a regular part of the Savoy-Plaza cuisine. Along with such unfamiliar entrées as yogurt and wild rice nut-burgers, they downed many a sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper...
...standard Stockowski version. In the Hindemith Concerto, Stanger was not at all bothered by the many complexities of rhythm and harmony which prevail throughout. The same was true of his performance of Piston's Third Symphony. This work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, is a tough nut to crack. Although not as cerebral as some of the Harvard professor's other creations, it still provides pitfalls for conductor and listener alike. Nevertheless, Piston himself called the performance a "miracle," and the cheering, foot-stamping audience must have thought...
...lead a Communist to a five-year plan, but you can't make him fulfill it. Last week Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosi admitted that Hungary's plan was a failure-in agriculture, coal mining and heavy industry. Said Rakosi: "The hardest nut to crack is agriculture. Why? Because not even the Communists in the villages follow the policy of our party...
...from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering was the dirty robes they wore. But within a week of their arrival, the most...