Word: oak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group would eventually stop work at mid-morning for a custom as necessary as the coffee break or English four-o'clock tea: Zinacanteco nine-o'clock pozol. Sitting at the edge of the cornfield under the shade of an oak, the Indians wash their hands meticulously and rinse out their mouths with water. The men would then take out their pozol, a yellow ball of corn mash the shape of a pineapple, wrapped in green cornhusks. Each of us took a handful of the cold pozol and put it in our bowls, adding water and stirring it with...
...there was more koshosh, warmed by leaning pieces against the fire, beans, stewed squash, or some other stewable kind of weed. Or perhaps chilis crushed in a bowl, with water and bits of onion added, into which to dip the koshosh. As darkness fell, the Indians sat over the oak fire and talked of Zinacantan politics, of weather and witchcraft, sickness and crops. At the center of the world things are fairly simple, after all; and it gave me a good feeling. There were only the elements, the earth, the corn, the fire, the night; and out of them...
Music & Mixers. For restless Ray Kroc, the road to drive-in wealth began with a series of detours. After early stretches as a jazz pianist and musical director of Oak Park, Ill. radio station WGES, Kroc spent 17 years selling paper cups and then Multimixer milk-shake makers. One day in 1954 he stopped at a drive-in run by two brothers named McDonald in San Bernardino, Calif. Impressed by their efficient operation, Kroc struck a bargain with the brothers: in return for use of the McDonald name and techniques, he agreed to pay them 0.5% of all future sales...
Three-Story Universe. Few physicists would hazard a location for heaven, but one who does is exceptionally well qualified. He is William Grosvenor Pollard, 50, executive director of the Institute of Nuclear Studies at Oak Ridge, Tenn. He is also the Rev. William Grosvenor Pollard, associate rector of Oak Ridge's St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. He uses his expertise in both fields in a stimulating, just published book: Physicist and Christian (Seabury Press...
...newly approved design (shown above) the text is set in a more ornate type face with unjustified side margins. The Harvard seal is embossed in the lower righthand corner, and a reddish-brown cluster of oak leaves is inset near the left margin...