Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Sputnik drive to meet the challenge of the Soviet Union's massive educational drive, the Houston school board asked the University of Houston and Rice Institute to help beef up the city's science teaching; Chicago upped the required academic courses for high school students from six to ten; Seattle plans advanced work for bright seventh graders; Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey called for a 5½-day school week and a ten-month year. But from M.I.T. last week came evidence that the Soviet school system has faults of its own. For a report on the flaws...
...Chinese, their grain is rice, and their meat is pork. Last week, under their Communist masters, they were getting less of both...
...wake of the country's worst combination of floods, drought and famine in nearly a decade, Communist administrators had taken to including sweet potatoes in weighing out the daily pound of rice. Farmers, with a bitterness that only a Chinese can fully appreciate, had coined a saying: "Sweet potatoes and noodles are the rice of socialism...
...then it was too late. Navy had won, Academy Superintendent Rear Admiral William R. Smedberg III was already in the dressing room accepting an invitation to play Rice in the Cotton Bowl, and Ned Oldham, candidate for lieutenant commander in the Brigade of Midshipmen and scholar on the superintendent's list (Naval Academy equivalent of dean's list), had already insured himself a name and a place in Navy history...
COTTON BOWL (Dallas)-Rice v. Navy...