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Word: rice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missionaries had their hands bound and were trucked to a "reeducation camp" being used to interrogate South Vietnamese prisoners of war. For five weeks the missionaries lived in the camp's leaky huts and tried to cope with hordes of snakes and scorpions. Although there was sufficient rice, there was little else to eat, and most of the prisoners lost 20 Ibs. or more; eight of the 14 contracted malaria. "Our captors were very edgy," recalls Mrs. Lillian Phillips, a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance who was captured along with her husband Richard. "But there was no brutality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: End of an Ordeal | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...Rice Scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Soccer Summary | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...freshman Jim Rice scored the game-winner at 28:29 of the second half on a cross from Dave Sarachan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Soccer Summary | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...basic arithmetic but lag later in geometry and exercises dealing with measurement. Strangely, though girls can match boys in arithmetic and are better than boys at reading, they do worse on "word problems" involving simple computations, such as determining the lowest per-ounce price for a box of rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Testing the Creed | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...Rice says he feels the Rhodes is not discriminatory--that in fact "it's made a significant if narrow contribution to upward mobility," at least for individual members of minority groups...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Long and Grinding Rhodes | 10/24/1975 | See Source »

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