Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little in Lagos mirrors the war be cause Nigeria so far has fought only a limited action. Open-air markets operate as usual, and military-age students hur ry blithely to classes. Foreign vessels crowd the port of Lagos. Palm oil, pea nut and cocoa exports are thriving and the economy is strong. Within earshot of Biafran guns, oil wells are pumping so robustly that Nigerian production this year will reach a record 255 mil lion barrels. Asked why they were pro testing the higher taxes needed for the army, participants in recent tax riots in outlying districts were stunned...
...owner, the restaurant's political era began. Konrad Adenauer liked to greet Ria, a fellow Rhinelander, in local dialect; he became a regular. Successor Ludwig Erhard became another steady; the day he succeeded der Alte as Chancellor, Ria sent him a Wedgwood tureen brimful of his favorite split pea soup. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who prefers to dine at the Schaumburg, has not maintained the custom...
Essentially, the show is "The Princess and the Pea" seen through the jaundiced eyes of three professional comedy writers--Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, and Dean Fuller...
When he set out to take his DNA pictures, Caltech Graduate Student Jack Griffith, 26, was well aware that his task would be extremely difficult. The DNA molecules from the pea-plant chromosomes used in his research project were only one thirteen-millionth of an inch across and would be agonizingly difficult to distinguish even with the aid of the most powerful electron microscope. In addition, the molecules would be distorted or destroyed by the instrument's electron beam before they could be photographed. Then how could they be photographed...
...Walter Thompson Co., the advertising agency whose mission was once described as the discovery of "what it is that makes this product the white pea in the pod." The first members of Nixon's White House team...