Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother reportedly joined the Devil King, bringing with her several hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine. The peasants' terror increased when red rains (caused by dust particles in the atmosphere) fell in their villages, told each other frantically that the end of the world was coming and that only the Devil King and his Flying Men would escape...
Died. Edgar Odell Lovett, 86, longtime (1908-46) president of Houston's Rice Institute, who was teaching math and astronomy at Princeton when its president, Woodrow Wilson, nominated him for the Texas post; in Houston...
...postwar impact of the West, and particularly of the U.S., has created a striking duality in the lives of Tokyo's plain people. They wear Western clothes to work, slip into cool kimonos or yukata at home. They drink coffee or eat popsicles at midmorning, have curried rice, raw fish or veal cutlet for lunch, go home to green tea, rice, seaweed, lily bulb, lotus root and bean curd. They go to see Marilyn Monroe at the cinema one night, follow this up (finances permitting) with long excursions to lengthy and painstakingly stylized classic Japanese Kabuki or No dramas...
...campaigning for billions in price supports, Washington politicos often give the impression that the subsidies benefit all of America's 5,400,000 farm families. Actually, only a minority gets them, since only five crops (wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco) are supported, and they are produced by the nation's most prosperous farmers. Left out almost completely are some 2,500,000 marginal farmers. These underfed and ill-housed families are a farm problem that few Congressmen talk about. Last week Congress grudgingly voted $2,500,000 for their benefit, a cut of $1,500,000 below...
...Force withdraw from Egypt's borders. He made no mention of Israel's ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship and held...