Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homes armed with empty pots and ladles. For 15 minutes they set up a metallic din that can be heard for blocks around-their way of protesting steadily worsening food shortages. Some mornings, people gather outside the Bernardo O'Higgins Military School and pelt cadets with wheat and rice, amid shouts of "Gallinas, gallinas!" (chickens, chickens), a gibe at the army's staunch refusal to oust President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...fruits, children hawk secondhand shoelaces, and the men are not likely to find more than two days' work a week. Some farmers have been hit just as hard. The threat of Communist attack-and of American bombs in counterattack-has kept thousands of them from tending their rice fields...
...China they set aside one meal a week--a simple meal--as a means of commemoration to recall the days before the Liberation. I am wondering if the Harvard dining facilities could be induced to set aside a lunch or evening meal for the same effect--e.g., serve rice, or a great bland dish that can be bought, prepared, and served cheaply. I should think some five cents per person could be saved in this way, although an administration budget juggler would probably call me naive. The money would be sent to the Indochinese through an appropriate organization...
...would foresee obstacles coming mainly from Harvard's right wing coterie. Perhaps one dining hall could be reserved for their tastes, and the rest serve rice, say on Friday night. If the Crimson or the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life could mobilize on this issue quickly and enthusiastically enough petition tables at registration and a student with a rubber stamp for dining hall tags should be able to take care of the implementation compare what has been done for getting the money for the Nader project...
...Senate set a new and imaginative fashion in memorials to its revered members last week by adding a favorite dish of the late Louisiana Senator Allen J. Ellender to the Senate restaurant menu. It is Louisiana creole gumbo, a concoction of rice, chopped seafood and okra, selling...