Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There they heard the piercing wails of ancient reed pipes and flutes. Priests in multicolored robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country...
Silver for Orphans. Though no one knows exactly how much she has given (best estimate: more than $20 million), her bounty has been spread widely and well. Fondren money built the $500,000 S.M.U. library, furnished half the cost of the $2,000,000 library at Rice Institute. It helped build Houston's Methodist Hospital, and it also helps support Episcopal St. Luke's. It has done everything from building a gymnasium for the students of Houston's Kinkaid School to founding the Methodist Home (for orphans) in Waco and giving Houston's Texas Medical Center...
...North, he noted: fresh uprisings in Nghean "are certainly more serious than simple passive resistance by poor Catholic peasants." Diem himself was a man of peace. On a recent inspection trip, he discovered that the mountain tribes of Annam have no calendar, simply use the planting of the new rice crop to mark the new year. Diem decided it was a shame, picked Feb. 22 for the inauguration of an annual mountain New Year's party that will last for three days. The tribesmen will stage swordfighting contests, race on elephants. Diplomats flown up from Saigon will hunt tigers...
When Hamilton Rice founded the Geographical Institute of Exploration at Harvard, Raisz came here. And he stayed for 20 years, teaching cartography and caring for the Institute's collection of maps ("The largest in New England."). In 1950, three years after President Conant decided to discontinue the Geography Department, Raisz withdrew his support from the Institute, and it closed...
...finest crystals, magnificent antiques. In the palmy days before and after World War I the Palace became a kind of winter home for the very rich and the very royal. The Maharaja of Hyderabad would arrive with 500 trunks and a personal cook, who sprinkled gold dust on the rice before serving his master's curry. On arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed out when the Aga Khan needed pocket money; the hotel would provide the Aga Khan (an Ismaili Moslem) with a compass, so he could determine the proper direction...