Word: watermelon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old lecturer in comparative literature, who, between midnight and 4 a.m. on Feb. 18, 1971, turned into a sightless, 6-ft., 155-lb. female breast. "At one of my ends," says Kepesh from his hammock in a New York hospital, "I am rounded off like a watermelon; at the other I terminate in a nipple, cylindrical in shape, projecting five inches from my 'body...
...vacation home on the Black Sea last month, Leonid Brezhnev smiled conspiratorially across a plate of watermelon slices at U.S. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson. "The Soviet Union has vast treasures for generations to come," the Communist Party boss said, "and we are now prepared to share them with you." He also told a joke about the peasant who bought eggs for two rubles, sold them for two rubles, and exclaimed "I am in business!" Brezhnev's point: the U.S. and the Soviets should not strike a trade bargain merely for the sake of making a deal, but should...
...unkempt sight of Rome and its historical monuments. It seemed as though the Italians had very little pride in their priceless surroundings. Perhaps one of the things I will most remember about Rome is that while standing in the Colosseum in the midst of newspapers, magazines and watermelon rinds, I watched as a man fed perhaps 30 cats, which were apparently being kept in order to control the rat population...
...past ten years at West Junior High School in Waterloo, Iowa, Alice Margaret Hayes, 67, has been reading the story Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon to her speech and drama class. When black students began busing to the school three years ago, Mrs. Hayes was always careful to ask if any objected, recognizing the stereotype that the title implies...
...Hate." The speech is spliced with scenes from the movies and television shows with which white society tried to teach Malcolm to hate himself, the movies and shows that have taught millions of blacks to hate themselves. There are pictures of Amos and Andy, Steppin' etchit, watermelon eating contests, and cute little Shirley Temple, as she walks into her all white birthday party, telling the slave girls. "I'll be sure to save you some cake...