Word: radish
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...Radish-Red Admiral. Wilson called in a whole task force of top Pentagon personnel for a blistering, table-thumping session which started with midday lunch and ended after 6 p.m. Frequently during the afternoon. Wilson tapped with thumb and forefinger on a memorandum written by Parks and Cutter which, like the U.P. story, described the Nautilus as a "test vehicle." But a radish-red Admiral Parks stoutly denied that he had leaked the story...
...around. "American tastes," says Clem, "are moving toward greater simplicity. Now one really good dish plus a good vegetable and a salad makes a dinner. Salads have come into great popularity-there's hardly a meal without them." To make a salad is simple. Take a radish, not just an ordinary radish "but a tiny radish of the passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white...
...Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king-gear," rumbled Thomas Carlyle one day, "and there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...
...leading Christian "white ones," his People's Building Administration was busy throwing up large, Russian-style housing developments for Communist Party members. Between 1947 and 1950 the price of rice in Pyongyang almost quadrupled. "Every time the price of rice went up another ten won," said a Pyongyang "radish" last week, "the government would announce a new housing project, a new hospital plan or a new wing for Kim II Sung University. This may have been very poor economics, but for most of our people who have never heard of economics anyway, it was excellent psychology...
Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...