Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlie's Kitchen, whose famed Double Cheeseburger Special is about the only other remnant of unabashedly American food left in the Square, Chicago Frank's specializes in Vienna Beef wieners, prepared the Chicago way, with mustard, ketchup, relish, onions, jalapenos and tomato wedges, in a soft, gushy, poppy seed-coated Coney roll. You can also buy a double dog, with two franks in a single roll. Variations include chili dogs, cheese dogs and corn dogs. Putting aside visions of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, we gave the establishment...
...Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club for his seed money...
...when he feels the need, he bursts into flower without ever thinking about the market price of apples. Conversely, it would seem that an apple tree is a work of art, a rhapsody in green and white. And it grows -- this is the miracle -- from a little brown seed no more than half an inch long, of which there are half a dozen inside every apple core that you throw into the garbage pail...
Like Martin Luther (or somebody) -- richly aware that the world might end tomorrow -- I keep planting apple seeds and watching to see how they grow. Some never germinate at all, some pop up about an inch and then slowly shrivel. But there stands outside my window one apple tree that was once a seed and is now more than twice as tall as I am. All it took me to grow it was about 15 years of my life...
Almost every time I look at that tree, I say to myself one of the things that a man most wants to say: "I made that." I know this is not really true. God made it. Or it made itself. But I helped. I planted the seed in the ground. I watered it. I watched over it and admired its blind, thrusting determination to be and to grow. And that is all most of us can do for most of the things or the people we care about...