Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, seasoned rice, beans and peas simmer on a stove and fill the barracks with on a stove and fill the barracks with what for these men are the smells of home. No one seems to mind that the windows have been hastily boarded up after local kids threw bottles through them. The weather...
...Koreans' reluctance to allow Park to testify freely was understandable. In testimony before the House committee, Former Korean CIA Chief Kim Hyung Wook told how Park had been set up as the middleman in the U.S. rice trade with Korea by former California Congressman Richard Hanna, who was indicted two weeks ago for seeking bribes, and fraud. According to Kim, Park earned $9 million in the process-and was given full support by the Seoul government for his influence peddling in Congress. Witnesses also provided fresh details of President Park's personal role in the scandal. A former...
...coldhearted reader, in fact, may find The Silmarillion at least half fustian and more than a yard long. There are moments when Tolkien sounds as if he were writing a parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs in the style of the Book of Revelations...
...brand called Billy Beer, which the First Brother will hawk on TV. He has forsaken the family's peanut warehouse business, but stands to earn some $500,000 this year from his various promotions and ventures. He could make more, but as his Nashville agent Tandy Rice explains, presumably with a straight face, 95% of the proffered business deals have been rejected as being "too flippant...
...writing in response to a column entitled "Of Rice & Men" which appeared in the Crimson on Tuesday, October...