Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passos, the first speaker declared that "socialism is a reality today," although at present, a political "hot potato; a pair of brass knuckles for politicians...
Deeds Alone. Down through the centuries, the Jews have lit the Hanukkah lights for eight days each year as a bright symbol of hope. In modern times, Hanukkah has turned into a kind of Jewish counterpart of Christmas-pretty, eight-candle Menorahs instead of Christmas trees, potato pancakes and doughnuts instead of plum pudding, a Hanukkah hymn instead of Come All Ye Faithful, and eight days of presents for the children...
...Philippines in 1944. For eleven years, Seaman Kinoshita lived on lizards, frogs, fruit and wild monkeys in the jungles of Luzon awaiting the day when a victorious Japanese navy would come to rescue him. That day never dawned, but last fortnight, as he raided a jungle-side sweet-potato patch, Kinoshita was picked up by Philippine police. "When," he asked, "will my head be cut off?" Told that he would not be killed at all, but sent home a free man, Kinoshita grew very sad. Last week, deprived of a hero's death by a too-forgiving enemy...
...mass of people on the streets are mostly peasants in padded jackets, minor bureaucrats in bell-bottomed trousers and women workers in potato-sack dresses. One in ten carries a small bundled-up infant. To see Russians smile, the visitor must observe them playing with their children in the parks of culture and rest. In the back streets, scores of old men and women shuffle along hopelessly, but although they may look like beggars, it is unlikely that they will ask a recognizable foreigner for alms...
...advantages. It has 50 million people to the East's 17 million. It has absorbed 11 million people from 'the East in the past ten years, and, with its industrial miracle, has nonetheless achieved full employment. East Germany, though once a great agricultural belt, now has desperate potato queues...