Word: pea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown Inc. put on sale gold pins and earrings made by putting trees and plant-grown leaves in a vacuum chamber and forcing 24-carat gold into the pores. The jewelry retains the shape and details of the original leaf, and the company expects to put gold broccoli, parsley, pea pods and strawberries on the market in the next two months. Price for earrings: $4 to $6; pins...
...Soviet rulers have had trouble with the pea santry from as early as 1917-21 when the new Bolshevik regime was in danger from a civil war. To secure the needed food for its soldiers, the authorities seized agricultural produce wherever it could. This, of course, caused the peasants to grumble and become alienated from the revolution. In 1921 peasants in Krondstadt and Tambov rose in rebellion, partly because of this arbitrary requisitioning...
...Pretend (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Andersen's The Princess and the Pea...
...Playwright Tennessee Williams converted Member into a Broadway hit one summer on Nantucket Island. "Ten's not a cook and I'm not a cook, and the house kind of went to pieces," recalled Carson in a kind of far away tone. "We ate mostly pea soup with wienies in it, I guess, and the cat had kittens on my bed. There were milk bottles and whisky bottles everywhere, and the windows were all blown off in storms and these strange cats would come in." On the play's opening night, storm-blown Carson "was so scared...
...styles presented in previous homogeneous collections: parables, satires, and parodies (Quo Vadimus), essays of the more classic form (One Man's Meat), notes from the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" (Every Day Is Saturday and The Wild Flay), and songs and poems (The Fox of Pea-pack...