Word: pots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
...Mary to Three Little Words, published a collection of his avocational efforts called Songs My Mother Never Sang (Random House, $2.50). This tunesmith's holiday provides musical America with a richly burlesque little sheaf of songs, including numbers entitled Indelible You and Get Off the Pot, and a fine satire on Gilbert & Sullivan, complete with antiphonal chorus effects, entitled He's Not an Aristocrat. The composer's program notes, to boot, are irresistible...
Last week, dressed in his Gaucho garb, with his trusty maté pot strapped under the belly of his trusty horse Bolivar, Marcelino again set forth from Buenos Aires, with a string of eight horses and one bell mare. From Recife in Brazil Marcelino planned to ship over to Lisbon, thence to ride through Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Moscow's Red Square. He would leave a good Argentine horse with the Chief of State of each nation he passed through, saving the bell mare for Prime Minister Churchill on his way back...
...Company "old salts" raised, a pertinent question at the same time--while he was on watch. "Where is the Joe-Pot," said he, referring to that omnipresent reminder, of shipboard tradition, the Java kettle...
...relaxed long since from its Spartan attitude that the U.S. must suffer for suffering's sake. Last week WPB relaxed again, granted permission to make ten household articles from carpet sweepers to pot cleaners, instructed textile spinners to set aside a certain percentage of yarn for civilians (winter underwear). But these were unsatisfactory, catch-as-catch-can patching attempts...