Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit planes - the famed "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze" of the air shows. What he wanted to prove was that precise and darting aggression spelled air power, but nobody cared. And when his noncommissioned wingmen flunked their tests for commissions, his gorge rose hot as a Louisiana pepper, and he resigned his own commission, saying: "I'm glad to get out. They're still running on the old 1917 ideas...
...over screens of khus-khus grass to cool homes, and millions of Indians drank curd milk mixed with salt, the superstitious villagers of Uttar Pradesh put slices of onion beneath their turbans and hung garlic on their fans in the belief it would ward off sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard-hit northern tier states. Rain fell...
...perhaps a cheviot or pepper-and-salt...
...citizen happens to have been born of immigrant parents, chances are he can season his speech with the salt-and-pepper words of a foreign language-although his children probably cannot. Otherwise, the odds are that he regards linguistic skill as one of the arcane arts. If he attended college, it is likely that his conviction was merely deepened; he may have won passing marks in French or German, but he probably cannot boast of it in either language...
Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 58, wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 130 Ibs.), single-minded godfather of the atomic submarine, speaks only one language: plain English, spiced with pepper. Last week he flouted Navy customs by showing up in civvies before the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, flouted congressional etiquette by unleashing peppercorn potshots that had even his hosts ducking for cover...