Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along a dirt road outside Jaura is the Gandhian ashrama known as the Change of Heart Mission. Under a makeshift but colorful tent, we lunched on vegetables and rice served on plates of dried banyan leaves. There I met a former bandit whom Vinoba Bhave had persuaded to surrender. "Did you ever kill anyone?" I asked. "Naturally. I killed policemen," he answered. "How many?" "If I asked you how many pieces of bread you've eaten in the past two months, could you tell...
...only people on guard at Hiram Scott nowadays are three patrolmen who take turns touring the 280-acre campus. And near by lives Hiram Scott's last president, Dr. Walter Weese, 53, a slim, sandy-haired scholar from Yale, who survives on savings and uses up the rice left behind in the college's empty kitchen...
Peanuts and Corn. Basically, the Government tries to restrict production by paying farmers to reduce the amount of land that they cultivate. It also seeks to prop up the market for crops like wheat, corn, rice and peanuts by guaranteeing a minimum price. Farmers can collect money for taking land out of production, then increase the yield on the acreage they do use, and collect at least the support price on all that they raise. A study last year by former Budget Director, Charles Schultze, estimated that consumers pay an extra $4.5 billion a year for food because of price...
Summers was skeptical of George Seewagon's hopes for creating Southern-style tennis program at Columbia. "The higher caliber of tennis is excellent for the league and Eastern tennis in general, but I doubt he can field a team like Rice's without breaking the league rules about recruiting," Summers said...
...trying to build a program like the one they have down at Rice," Seewagon said, "and starting next year, we will be playing a schedule comparable to theirs. And since we also play Ivy League matches, we will actually be doing a good deal more...