Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtroom swarms of swallows twittered in the cherry trees, and various Japanese protest groups milled about urging everything from the utmost leniency to the death penalty for the prisoner in the dock. Inside the courtroom the electric fans stopped whirling because of power shortage, and everyone broke out collapsible rice-paper fans...
Died. Craig Rice (Georgiana Randolph Craig), 49, bestselling authoress of about 25 whodunits (Having Wonderful Crime, To Catch a Thief, Trial by Fury) and a handful of screen plays (Home Sweet Homicide, Underworld Story), whose hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-dying heroes reflected their creator's liquid-decked (she was committed to California's Camarillo State Hospital in 1949 for chronic alcoholism), love-torn (five times married) and death-daring (she twice threatened suicide) Bohemian existence; of cause under investigation; in Los Angeles...
There are no jokes in the Japanese language about the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter. This is because whenever a traveling salesman visits a Japanese farm, daughter is working in the rice fields, chopping wood or feeding the chickens, and the best a poor salesman can hope for is a chat and a cup of tea with dear old dad, who often enough is not doing anything...
...last week Mrs. Oka's green flag fluttered in Iwano's square, and not a woman was to be seen in the rice fields, the woodsheds or the poultry pens; instead they strolled about the streets, rested in bed or chattered happily away over cups of green tea at Mrs. Oka's house. Iwano's 500 men bustled about cooking lunch, washing dishes, and bending wearily over the rice fields. The mothers-in-law, unhappiest of all, sat back grimly, arms folded, refused either to work or consort with the archtraitor Oka, who had incited such...
...object. "We must be resigned to change," said one. As for Mr. Oka, he seemed completely in sympathy with his wife's aims. "It's time we men treated our women better," he conceded. "We should handle them at least as lovingly as we handle the rice...