Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Next time I'm planning to get exotic," he says. "Things like canned rice birds -they're sort of like squab-and white fungus and the interior of bamboo shoots." M-m-m good. Is Chung-King worried...
...West Bengal's overflowing health centers, a 45-year-old rice farmer watched his infant son continue to suckle after his mother had died of cholera. "My wife is dead," the man said numbly. "Three of my children are dead. What else can happen?" With the refugees spreading through the Indian states, carrying the disease with them, the epidemic could rapidly afflict hundreds of thousands of Indians. For this reason, Indian authorities are trying to prevent the East Pakistanis from entering Calcutta, where uncounted millions already live on the streets in squalid conditions that guarantee an annual cholera epidemic...
...beds. My host, who spoke fairly good English, explained the customs of his temple so I could follow them while I stayed there. At 5 am, everyone gets up, bathes, and begs for alms at houses throughout the city. Between 6 and 6: 30 breakfast, which consists of polished rice, is served in a large hall where everyone sits on the stone floor while eating. Only one other meal is eaten for the rest of the day. It also consists of rice and must be taken before noon; between noon and the next morning nothing can be eaten...
...people in the area outside of U.S. control come out only at dusk and dawn to try to grow enough rice and manioc to survive, but planes attack any sign of life. Anything moving is shot at-even trails and cultivated fields are bombed. Reportedly all strategic targets of any kind have been destroyed, and the bombing is now simply plowing up ground...
...LAST night in Luang Prabang I ate dinner in the bamboo shack of a Lao translator I had met in the U.S. Information Service office. We ate a typical meal of tasteless "sticky rice." coated vegetables and soup. We talked about the war, the Americans and the Pathet Lao. "Do you know what Pathet Lao means?" he asked...