Word: ricefield
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Then southward, first for a stop in antebellum Charleston, where Twain insists on renting an electric boat to tour the ricefield bogs; and Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...
...others in test tanks. Their breeding habits were unaffected; during one two-month test, three pairs of caged pearlfish produced a total of almost 2,000 eggs. While 60% hatched under ideal laboratory conditions, as few as one-tenth of 1% of those left to dry in a simulated ricefield environment later produced fish. But even this rate, Bay calculated, is enough for a yearly population of about 38,000 fish per acre...
Oral Opposition. Before the Communists' invasion of South Korea in 1950, and again during the period when North Korean Reds occupied Seoul, South Korean intellectuals flocked north to the Communists like magpies to a ripe ricefield. For some the change was permanent: they are now entrenched with the Communist government in the north. But a few doubters elected to remain with Rhee's government and see what time would bring. During the past 18 months, those who remained have lost their doubts. In Pusan this week, in a coffee shop lighted by one feebly glowing electric light bulb...
Communists did more than talk. A new rash of Communist-inspired strikes broke out in Italy. In the north, dairy and ricefield workers struck. Sicilian dockworkers and Sardinian coal miners threatened to join. In the Red fortress of Bologna, Communists called a 24-hour general strike. The objects of Communist parliamentary and trade-union tactics: to trip up the government as it inched toward stability...
...kind that come to men when death has been cheated. Lieut. Jack Adams of Anadorko, Okla. was often the subject of such grim humor. Jack Adams, now a major, sank a transport and shot down three Zeros, but had to make a forced landing in a water-covered ricefield with two motors shot out. He and his crew, three of whom were wounded, returned three weeks later by boat, oxcart, automobile, train and plane. Captain Clarence E. McPherson, later killed in Australia, once landed on an airdrome before he knew the Japs had seized it, but realized his mistake before...
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