Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopes. Its faults and sins are largely those of the enormous city around it, but it does not accept them with equanimity. In a sense, it attempts an all but impossible role. For more than a century and a half, as the catalyst in the greatest U.S. melting pot, New York's schools have been assaulted by wave on wave of immigrants from abroad and have been forced to spread their light amidst squalor, machine politics, and fogs of apathy, racial prejudice and ignorance...
...homeland--a sort of "home away from home"--but sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...
...often unsteady) pedestrians from tripping over them. An early Portland matron startled the populace with a carriage robe made of the breast feathers of 144 canvasback ducks. And Portland's pioneer St. Charles Hotel boasted a lock on every door and a hand-knitted wrapper on every chamber pot...
...Dough. Canned beef pot pie was put on the market by Trenton Foods, Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., which claims to be the first to can dough successfully. The pie needs no refrigeration, can be baked right in its pie-pan-shaped tin. Price: 69?, enough for three servings...
...found Roy's work exciting. By the end of the show's first week half of the 27 paintings and drawings had been sold. Back in Calcutta, Jamini Roy would take the news with equanimity. Says he: "All I really need in life is a simple earthen pot for food and a straw mat to sleep on. They are the only real things in life...