Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rice, the owner of the Copley, said to me, 'You crazy Englishman, why do you want a steady day off?'" he says. "I says, Mr. Rice, I came to America and I'm a little disappointed. I don't have any family here. Mr. Rice, I like women. I can't even make an appointment with a prostitute because I don't have a steady day off.' And we got that...
...neighboring India where one can find a million starving beggars in the streets of Bombay or Delhi. While the average Nepalese is lucky to make 150 to 200 rupees ($15-20) a month, there is no mass starvation because of recent good monsoon years and the extensive rice cultivation both in the Valley of Nepal and the lowlands. While the full brunt of the monsoon is not felt in the valley, heavy monsoon clouds hang over the city from June until September, dumping up to 40 inches of rain in that period...
...consists of 221 packages, ranging from sake bottles to wrappings for candied papaya. All the designs have a long craft history, and some are very old indeed: one type of wooden container, tied together with strips of bark and used for carrying the raw fish on vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara prefecture for more than a thousand years. But everything in the show is to this day a standard form of packaging among a number-diminishing, alas-of shops, stalls and manufacturers. For this reason, "Tsutsumu "is probably the cheapest design exhibition...
...Military Region Two, which encompasses the central part of South Viet Nam, the key cities of Pleiku and Kontum are fortress outposts in an area controlled by highly mobile North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units. In the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon, where more than one-third of South Viet Nam's population lives, Communist attacks have driven government troops out of many outposts. At the same time, a blocking maneuver aimed toward Route 4 by North Vietnamese troops threatens Saigon's vital connection with the Delta...
...temperature dropped to a numbing 13° below zero that night, and on Sunday the course was frozen solid. Attla, who had turned in the best time during Saturday's first heat, prepared his team for the final day with a feast of cottage cheese, honey and rice. As spectators clutching flasks of brandy scrambled on foot or into pickups to find vantage points out on the course, Starter Frank Salerno began dispatching the 141 teams at 1-and 2-min. intervals. When Attla's turn came, he catapulted from the starting line and assaulted Suicide Hill...