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Word: soy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowing version of Castro's moves clacked out to other Latin American capitals over the teletypes of Prensa Latina, a new wire service that set up shop in Havana last month after Castro argued that "the international news mo nopolies [i.e., AP and UPI] soy lies and calum nies to weaken our revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Strongman Speaks | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Every Saturday night they have a blow-out--the ninety-nine cent steak at the Waldorf and a bottle of Vat 69. (Sometimes they buy a can of soy beans instead of steak; more protein for less money.) As the evening dwindles away, they sing camp songs and conjure spirits and chart their astrology from cryptic directions on a weight machine. Look closely, and you will see they have holes in their socks and need a man's deodrant, and the only thing which sustains them is a vision...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Every Saturday night they have a blow-out--the ninety-nine cent steak at the Waldorf and a bottle of Vat 69. (Sometimes they buy a can of soy beans instead of steak; more protein for less money.) As the evening dwindles away, they sing camp songs and conjure spirts and chart their astrology from cryptic directions on a weight machine. Look closely, and you will see they have holes in their socks and need a man's deodorant, and the only think which sustains them is a vision...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...search of a glint in the sand and gravel. In the villages of the Panhandle in the southeast, the red salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun out to gather wild celery and Indian rhubarb, came home for feasts of delicate herring eggs (cooked in seal oil, garnished with soy sauce). Spring yawned in the lower valleys, and out popped the arctic poppy, shooting star, lupine and forget-me-not (Alaska's official flower). And now, after a long winter's self-imposed confinement, out lumbered the great Alaskan bears-and with them the sudden sparkle of high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...soy's very success spelled trouble. As the price rose, the processors' profits dropped and so did their interest in soybeans. They could not compete with edible oils from corn and other sources, and finally they began closing down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Soaring Soy | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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