Word: rice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson, a quiet, intelligent and pleasant woman of 40, lives on the good earth of Minnesota - the 400-acre estate left by her father-in-law, the late Alexander Pierce Anderson, inventor of Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. But she and her husband-Abstract Artist John Pierce Anderson-are hardly horny-handed tillers of the soil. Eugenie Anderson has traveled in Europe, studied music in Manhattan's Juilliard School. She has an intellectual's taste in art, books and music. Nevertheless, the appointment, which made her the first U.S. woman to become an ambassador, seemed like a pleasant...
...Evanston, 111., Michigan, beaten by Army a fortnight ago after
an unbroken string of 25 victories, was upset again, 21-20, by
in-and-out Northwestern.
...French are doing well in both respects. Last year, the Communists controlled virtually the entire country except the major cities. Since then they have lost the key rural areas, including the Red River delta and Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost...
...James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin boy to England's Lord Chief...
After threatening suicide from a locked hotel room which she had fortified with a large supply of sleeping pills and a bottle of whisky, Whodunit Authoress Craig (Home Sweet Homicide) Rice, 41, had an explanation for the cops: it was all just a plot twist to win back her estranged fifth husband, Henry W. De Mott Jr., 29, whom she was suing for divorce. "It was a foolish thing to do," she admitted, "but sounded like a good idea at the time...