Word: tapioca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matty likes the prospects. His company will take a 5% cut on every ton of goods that it moves. First haul in sight: $170 million worth of rubber, tin, pepper, tapioca, etc., already stockpiled and ready for shipment as soon as the Dutch lift their economic blockade against the islands...
...people who sugar their oatmeal (i.e., the English) have no real appreciation of Bobbie Burns's "halesome parritch." But few Scots were prepared for the blow struck last week against oatmeal. Not only did London ration Scottish oatmeal, but it announced the order in a list concerning sago, tapioca and other plebeian foodstuffs...
...business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
...girl I knew was brought up by 'higher thinking' parents to regard God as perfect 'substance.' In later life she realized that this had actually led her to think of Him as something like a vast tapioca pudding. (To make matters worse, she disliked tapioca.) We may feel ourselves quite safe from this degree of absurdity, but we are mistaken. If a man watches his own mind, I believe he will find that what profess to be specially advanced or philosophic conceptions of God are, in his thinking, always accompanied by vague images which, if inspected...
Sail Ho! By year's end, the U.S. will again be importing commodities from the troubled Netherlands East Indies. The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in New York announced that the first cargoes will include: tapioca, spices, varnish gums, essential oils, hides & skins...