Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sukarno Must Go." The cost of living in Indonesia has shot up 36% in the past six months, 96% since 1953. Cotton textiles are up 40%, the price of rice higher than it has been at any time in 30 years. From Sumatra to Amboina, dissatisfied military leaders stirred in near rebellion. Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, onetime Sukarno favorite who now leads dissident forces in East Indonesia (Celebes, Lesser Sundas and Moluccas), says 'flatly: "Sukarno must go." From Sumatra last week came word of a Communist-inspired attack on Indonesian regular army units stationed in the town of Siantar...
...profits rose 23.1% between June and December 1956, companies increased dividends by only 2.2% (to 14.1%), retained the bulk of their earnings. As for Japan's consumers, heavy savings from past years (12% of disposable income v.7% in the U.S.) plus a near-record 371 million-bu. rice crop give them plenty of money to spend. Department store sales are up 23% for 1957 despite the credit pinch, and in one rice-rich village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan, the population of 300 families bought 300 motorcycles, 300 electric washing machines, and five electric refrigerators last...
...first-period fumble gave the Irish a touchdown, the Middies took command as if they were scrimmaging with a squad of plebes. Quarterback Tom Forrestal called plays with professional precision; when he needed extra yardage, Fullback Ray ("Tex") Wellborn was always ready to oblige. A tireless transfer student from Rice Institute, Wellborn ran for two touchdowns, caught a Forrestal pass for a third. Final score: 20-6. "I just happened to be following those big horses," said he. "Tom called 'em, I ran 'em, they blocked 'em." Which was a modest way of saying that Tex Wellborn...
...intense, square-jawed Chinese artist stared fixedly at the rice paper taped to the wall, his wolf-and-goat-hair brush poised in his hand like a dart. Suddenly he reached to the top of the paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang...
...does the scenery compare with his beloved Kialing River? Replies Huang: "The landscape is not too different. But American trees are too uniform; Chinese trees are more interesting. What I missed most was the mist." For Huang this presented no insuperable problem. He simply left blank areas of rice paper to indicate the mist, in one view added two Chinese fishermen in the bed of Yosemite's Merced River, for good measure...