Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viet Nam. Raw material producers who suffer from falling prices should not simply increase production of their rice, tin or rubber. They should boost quality, not quantity: rubber producers, for example, should strive to make their product more competitive against synthetic rubber...
...Army (6-0-1)-was apparently defeated by Rice, with three minutes to play. Then Quarterback Joe Caldwell threw a Lord-help-us pass to Halfback Pete Dawkins for a 14-7 triumph...
...Stevens became a member of this company in 1951 only because the then writing members of it-Maxwell Anderson, Robert Sherwood and Elmer Rice-had desperate need of the business ability and organizing acumen to accelerate production of plays by other authors which Roger Stevens, a successful businessman, was eminently able to provide. That Mr. Stevens also happened to have some ready cash was deplored by none...
...years, the word went round last week: "He will be a great Pope!" In Sotto il Monte the three remaining Roncalli brothers. Zaverio, 75, Alfredo, 69, and Giuseppe, 64, were having supper after a hard day's work when the big news came over their old radio. The rice soup grew cold while they listened; then as excited neighbors poured from their houses, the brothers hurried upstairs to dress up for the occasion. And in Sesto San Giovanni, a little town near Milan, Angelo Roncalli's sister Assunta was out buying bread when the news reached...
...memory of this fellowship I carry emblazoned on my fading consciousness. It is the memory of staggering upstairs from the dining hall to my moist and tropical room, my belly swelled with an evening feast of boiled potato, wads of creamy butter, rice pudding, French bread, crispy pie crust and glass upon glass of tepid milk. (It is of such starch that tomorrow's leaders are made.) It is the memory of a genial House superintendent humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory...