Word: radish
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...bayonets; the notorious compounds at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings with hardwood sticks; their friends who had died...
...purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
...field of 10-watt bulbs for electric displays, they found after World War I that General Electric's patents were law-proof, settled down to make bulbs under G. E. license, on a production quota of 2% of G. E.'s own. Pushing like a radish sprout under a rock, the Poor Brothers merged with other small licensees, ran their quota up to 10%, became No. 3 lamp maker (after G. E. & Westinghouse...
Yellowish carbon disulfide, with its radish-like stink, is a man-made chemical used to dissolve fats. In the rayon industry it is poured into huge churns to dissolve cotton or wood pulp before the cellulose solution is spun into threads. From the churns rise foul C52 fumes...
...plant is the amazing welwitschia (Welwitschia mirabilis). The only member of its genus, it lives to be 100, grows a radish-like root four feet in diameter, puts out two trailing ten-foot leaves. It is found only in two remote little districts in Britain's Southwest Africa...