Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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August in Brazil, by tradition and local superstition, is a miserable month. It was August when President Getúlio Vargas shot himself in 1954, and when President Janio Quadros put out to sea in a fit of pea-green pique in 1961. Blaming Brazil's ills on the calendar is like blaming winter on the woolly bear; but last week, as Brazilians watched their potentially prosperous country sink deeper into economic and political con fusion, it must have been August's fault. It could hardly be President João Goulart's; he hadn...
...Courtship of Eddie's Father. A young man named Ronny Howard is Hollywood's latest heartthrob, but to look at him you'd never know it. His hair is the color of iodine. His teeth are separated by gaps he can push a pea through. His face is so heavily freckled his eyes can be located only when he blinks. Furthermore, he stands a mere 5 ft. 1 in., weighs less than 70 Ibs., and talks in a squeaky little voice that sounds as if it came from a nine-year-old boy. It does. It comes...
...have rhapsodized about truffles and caviar, but few have been inspired to sing the praises of the lowly pea. One exception is Author Max (Barefoot Boy) Shulman, who has not only written a song about pea picking but speaks poetically of the peas' earthly journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants...
...Sounds Silly." Although dwarfed by other industry heavyweights, Green Giant has regularly harvested a profit every year since 1932, largely because it coddles all its vegetables as it does its tiny pet, the pea. Green Giant's peas are planted with great care somewhere among the company's 175,000 acres across the U.S. (which make Green Giant rank among the five largest U.S. farmers). Their development is zealously checked against "maturity guide charts," unique documents that are considered the company's secret weapon. To ensure a uniform pea, whether it is grown in Wisconsin or Washington...
...once the frozen food line and other new products are better established. But while it moves into mushroom sauce and other more sophisticated fare, the company is still loyal to its early love. As long as there is a Green Giant, says Felton, there will always be a pampered pea...