Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mixed Motives. In the 1920s, the U.S. was already talking of giving "our little brown brothers" their independence-for a variety of motives. Powerful U.S. interests (sugar, tobacco, dairy, cottonseed and peanut oil, the West Coast labor unions) objected to the rivalry of cheap Filipino products and cheap Filipino labor. They were joined by U.S. liberals who squirmed when Filipinos quoted U.S. doctrine back at them-i.e., that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. The U.S. gave the Philippines partial independence in 1935, and set the date of complete independence...
...director of admissions recalls his first meeting with the 155-lb. youngster who was to write a new chapter of Princeton football history: "Kazmaier had been recommended as an all-round high school athlete, and I didn't know what to think when I saw that peanut walk in." He wrote a kindly comment on Dick's card: "Probably not big enough for college athletics." But Princeton was glad to have Kazmaier: it was interested in him for other reasons...
...student is a stubborn case, there is a process called indoctrination through labor, which means he is put to work in a gang, on repairing Peking's city walls or digging sewers. Food is rationed at 20 ounces of kaoliang (millet) and one ounce of peanut oil a day, topped with occasional boiled potatoes and cabbage and about two ounces of meat a week. Students follow a 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. routine, broken only by two half-hour rest periods...
...baffled. Some of those on the receiving end of this plethora are convinced that the dining hall department is using them as a testing ground for strange new experiments. Others assert that an old eccentric gentleman left an endowment to provide all future students with his favorite ice creams--peanut brittle, cherry cocoanut, and macaroon...
...domestic bureaus, three in Canada and three overseas), started the Dallas edition, put in a humor column and developed the W.S.J.'s trademark: the front page project story. These pieces weave together a number of loose news threads into single comprehensive stories on subjects ranging from the peanut industry to U.S. foreign policy...