Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan alone, 800,000 students and teachers were turned into the fields...
...York's Union Square, Gunawardena calls himself "a Marxist, first, last and always." From the moment Bandaranaike took him into the government last year (ostensibly to keep him quiet), Gunawardena has stepped up his demands for more and more nationalization. He has already won authority to control all rice and sugar sales. His latest proposal would give him the right to control and collectivize every paddy field in the nation. Bandaranaike, who originally opposed the bill, discreetly switched his stand and gave it his backing after discovering it had considerable parliamentary support...
...having oyako," he replied. "Chicken, vegetable, and eggs scrambled with sauce, on steamed rice...
...carotene. But behind the technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands. Such symptoms are the result of the starchy foods (yams, corn meal, potatoes, plantains, rice) that make up a child's daily fare throughout large areas of Latin America. But last week Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw of the U.S. proudly exhibited a greyish meal that offered a promise of real help...
...hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus. "I won't eat it! If you won't get me a bowl...