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...pregnant. "She stayed then about two weeks," says Ruth. "During the day, we would do the normal things, washing diapers, folding clothes, talking. She was interested in how Americans cook. She was particularly interested in all the spices and condiments. I taught her how to use seasoning, salt and soy sauce and so forth. She taught me to use dill weed in making a good creamed chicken dish." On Thursday, May 9, Oswald called from New Orleans and said he had found a job. Mrs. Paine piled Marina and Junie and her own two children into her Chevrolet station wagon...
Junpei is a hobo full of heart and uncommon ingenuity. He wears a remarkable garment fitted out with pockets for everything: tools, utensils, pots, food packets, soy sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although...
...father and a Japanese mother, who was recruited by a sumo scout when he was 16 and weighed a mere 155 lbs. Apprenticed to a sumo stable in Tokyo, Taiho built up his weight by devouring large quantities of chanko-chicken, cabbage, potatoes, potato peels, radishes, carrots, flour and soy sauce, all beaten into a glutinous mass and served with buckets of rice. To toughen his bulk, Taiho trained for four hours a day, doing kneebends and backbends, and slamming into a wooden pillar with his stomach, chest and head...
...roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress - $1 billion this year alone - to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning...
Over the main entrance of the red brick bullring, on the western edge of Lima, hung a sign: "Jesús dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham...