Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...residents of Madison, N.H., who stamped out the effort of land developers to change the names of Pea Porridge and Middle Pea Porridge ponds to Champagne and Burgundy lakes...
...thousand-and-one-nights imagery he has flung pell-mell upon the screen seems organic only to his own turbulent imagination. Though Juliet of the Spirits offers bizarre and enticing spectacle, it is transparently a gaudy intellectual shell game that expends awesome amounts of energy to discover a pea...
...Kuku will part with a harebrained outfit consisting of rabbit hip-huggers in black-and-white checks, topped with a rabbit halter and black-and-white striped jacket. For slightly more, a girl can pick up a striking Indian-kid coat that is shaped like a sailor's pea jacket, or an imitation-cheetah walking suit made of calfskin...
Today, the slump is being dramatically reversed. The steel industry has devised a way to drill the once useless taconite with 4,300° jet flames. Machines then crush the ore, magnetize it and roll it into pea-sized pellets that are then baked to produce a product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment...
...landing system certified as airworthy by the Federal Aviation Agency is one developed by Boeing and the Bendix Corp., but it has not yet been used commercially. The British are understandably first. London Airport is fogged in at least a dozen full days each winter, and some days the pea soup is so thick that even a taxiing plane gets lost on the field...