Word: tapioca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked up many of the best-known U.S. food processors. Among them: Baker's chocolate, founded in 1765, which Postum got for $9,000,000 in stock; Maxwell House (for $46 million); Jell-O ($44 million); Birds Eye ($22 million); Swans Down ($7.4 million); also Minute Tapioca, Log Cabin syrup, Calumet Baking Powder. Hutton and Chester renamed this big shopping bag General Foods...
...explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky sponsors hanging like a tapioca curtain between the public and a comedian...
...Indians peel and boil a starchy tapioca-type root. Their women then chew the root and spit it out to be fermented for about five days. It's pretty intoxicating when you keep at it for 12 or 14 hours as they do at the festivals...
...Boston American's ski columnist could not decide whether to call snow "the elusive white substance" or "the heavenly tapioca." And in Travel magazine, skiers slid down the slopes on "the beatified barrel staves...
...bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca, rice and lentils. When they chant their prayers, they sit cross-legged on the floor. They wear no shoes or sandals, for Indian custom forbids any footgear inside a holy place...