Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solomonic wisdom); the three-meals-a-day routine is too arbitrary.
...Potato dumplings...
...grey paste made from the potato-like taro plant, and eaten with the fingers...
...Brahms and bourbon). The Brahms comes from an elaborate hi-fi set and, during the music, Selby spends an hour or so reading his mail. Selby's three children have made occasional appearances on his television show, usually as a background audience, munching hot dogs and potato chips, washed down with milk. They are not particularly impressed-possibly because there is no TV set in the Selby home...
...gardener, now owns 30 movie theaters. There are new power plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the death rate is down to less than 40% of prewar. Many Okinawans who once existed exclusively on a sweet-potato diet have climbed a rung on the Oriental living scale and eat rice. "Before the war, only section chiefs and above in the government wore shoes," says one Okinawan. "Now everybody has a pair." The Colonial Business. Without anyone really intending it that way, the U.S. has been thrust into...