Word: rice
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Three of the appointees coming from outside the University are Vivian Henderson, President of Clark College, Lois Rice, a Radcliffe trustee and associate director of the College Entrance Examination Board, and Wade H. McCree, a Detroit judge...
Jungle Habitat. Making contact with the Tasaday, the government agents soon determined that the tribe had been isolated for at least 700 years and perhaps for 2,000, and had no knowledge of agriculture. The Tasaday are unfamiliar with rice, taro, salt and sugar, have never eaten corn and, according to authorities, may be "the only people in the world today who do not know or use tobacco...
...most notable name on Welch's list of "Inadequate" programs is giant Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Others on the blacklist are Baylor, Case Western Reserve, and Rice universities; New Orleans Baptist Seminary; the fundamentalist Dallas and Grace seminaries; the Catholic Aquinas Institute; and the Jewish Dropsie College. These days, it seems, even mediocrity is ecumenical...
...sectors of Moslem Pakistan, painfully amputated from newly independent Hindu India in 1947 for religious reasons, have never really shared anything beyond a common religion. The tall, lightskinned Punjabi Moslems of largely arid, wheat growing West Pakistan are separated from the short, darkerskinned Bengali Moslems of tropical, rice growing East Pakistan by 1,000 Miles of Indian territory. Yet the populations of the two regions are roughly equal (the East is slightly larger, with 55 per cent of the nation's 130 million people), and hopes were high that with the help of foreign aid and expertise, the two regions...
Hirohito is a TV watcher with a preference for soap operas, scientific programs and news. Each summer he dons waders and plants a rice crop in a special royal paddy field within the walls; in the fall, like other Japanese farmers, the Emperor harvests his rice. The Emperor's favorite pastime, pursued since childhood, is the study of marine biology. He spends two afternoons a week in his laboratory. On his periodic field trips he is so impatient to peer into the dredges to see what they have brought up from the sea bottom that he sometimes bumps heads with...