Word: rhubarb
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...Rhubarb. In the ancient, changeless East, Hong Kong is remarkable for youth. When it was founded in 1841, Chicago was already a city, and New Orleans had been an important seaport for more than a century. Hong Kong's difficult birth resulted from a clash of wills between Britain's eager merchants and the mandarin aloofness of the Manchu court. The West desperately wanted the tea and silk of China; China wanted chiefly to be left alone...
...Chinese government reacted with moral lectures ("It is wrong to make a profit out of what is harmful to others") and threatened to ban the sale of rhubarb to Europeans, relying on the firmly held Chinese belief that all foreigners, and especially the English, would die of constipation if deprived of rhubarb's laxative qualities...
...weeks after the Cincinnati Reds' Second Baseman Billy Martin caved in the face of Cubs' Pitcher Jim Brewer in a rhubarb over beanballs, the Cubs and Brewer fought back with a $1,040,000 suit against the Reds and their terrible-tempered infielder, provoked Martin to crack: "I wonder if they want this in cash or by check...
...time to time about the monopoly status of baseball. But the deal does not settle which league gets what cities. New York, which has been without a National League team since the Dodgers and Giants followed the gold rush to California, will certainly get another National League team. The rhubarb should be fierce over the other cities...
...current rhubarb over religion relative to the presidency reminds one that most of the discord and turmoil and inhumanity among humans originates with religious people. On the average, the skeptical and the pious seem equally to have failed to emerge from their primitive caves; as to human qualities, there seems to be but little choice between them...