Word: radish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...overdo it" is Katayama's favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
...radish would have a hard time coming up in Hoboken, N.J.-and would be disappointed if it did. Hoboken is not a garden spot. Its wharves, its factories, its warehouses, its 254 bars, its bookie parlors, its bleak blocks of ancient brownstone houses, its 50,115 people, their washing and their unspeakably articulate cats are all jammed into one clangorous, soot-shrouded square mile. But Hoboken was made to order for Bernard Nicholas McFeely. He grew and prospered there...
...know. There are too many things about democracy which we students have not had time to study. All of us here walk three kilometers a day to get a meal of a little rice and radish. It is difficult to contemplate the philosophy of government under such circumstances...
...melancholy admission for 38-year-old Heinz to make. For the first time Tom, Dick & Harry would have some kind of say in the company the Heinzes had built and controlled for three generations. Henry John had founded the business in 1869 by hawking horse-radish from door to door; son Howard had lifted sales to $62,000,000 before he died in 1941; grandson H. J. II had kept them moving...