Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From 300 yds., only the black snout of a machine gun could be seen, poking between green spikes of wild rhubarb on the black slate ridge. Smoke from Chinese cooking fires rose in the clear air. "Let's get a closer look," said the Indian officer, clambering down to the road. "If the Chinkos open fire, get down and we'll take care of the rest." Our group of four moved forward, flanked by three jawans with automatic rifles and covered by others in the granite-block fortifications behind us. Around a curve we came on a group...
...Among them: onions, okra, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, tomatoes, rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, snap beans, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, musk melon, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, eggplant, pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, parsley...
...capers a fertile source of copy. "I prefer beer to champagne and tinned salmon to smoked," insists Wilson. "I am on the side of plain living and high thinking." Actually, Wilson likes steak and wine as well as the next man, but he tucks into packaged custard, stewed rhubarb and canned meat with schoolboyish gusto...
...theater people won their point, it was not much of a point to win. The entire rhubarb, after all, was about nothing but money. The Broadway theater is indeed not dying. But it is not living very meaningfully either. At some expense to serious drama, it calculatedly emphasizes entertainment; but much of its chosen fluff fails utterly to entertain. When truly superior work comes along, it will always achieve Broadway production...
Except for busting Sachs in the snoot ("He called me a liar") and admitting that the track did seem "a little slippery," Parnelli Jones carefully steered clear of the rhubarb. A balding, broken-nosed Californian who began racing at 18, Jones had something else on his mind: deciding how to spend his share of the $148,513 winner's purse...