Word: pea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the first real pea-souper of this year's smog season rolled over London, 6,000 doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent...
...Wagnerian man if there ever was one-a great old fiddler and lace-maker." Evans' realistic approach has inspired a generation of photographers, among them Margaret Bourke-White, who first made her mark photographing industry, and Dorothea Lange, who photographed California's migratory pea-pickers to show the effects of the Depression. Echoing the early Weegee, Evans says: "Photography is for the record. Realism...
...call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters on the famed Cutty Sark got little but pea soup and "boiled salt horse" during a voyage of many months, and biscuits so hard that they had to be smashed with belaying pins...
...most solid dish in a meal, some form of beef should be eaten. Either with pea pods or bean sprouts, the sauted slices of beef have a rich accompanying oyster sauce made from an extract of oysters and imported from China. The contrast between crisp green vegetables and tangy cooked meat is both delighteful and surprising...
...breakfast might consist of one dry cracker washed down with cold water and honey; her lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup ("Fit for a king!" he exclaimed, smacking his lips) to a wide assortment of nuts, fruits, vegetable juices and interminable strips of raw carrot...