Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana 1,000 angry cattlemen met to condemn land reform as "slavery," "confiscation" and a "precursor of violence and convulsions." A mass meeting of rice growers denounced the reform as uneconomic; Pinar del Río landholders pledged themselves "to defend our property, acquired by the efforts, battles and privations of years." Five Havana newspapers criticized the reform. Avance noted that the regime could no longer "dust off that celebrated little word 'counterrevolutionary' for everyone who dissents from official opinion...
...money at last (about $270), the urn was opened, and there was Chih Hang-his body considerably thinned, but firm and uncorrupted. Last week, in another shrine, guarded by stone lions and surrounded by Buddha figures, Chih sat for his gilding. Throngs of pilgrims came carrying incense sticks, bearing rice offerings, dropping coins in collection boxes. Meanwhile, Chen Lu-kuan, a goldsmith from Taipei, covered the body with a lacquered silk cloth and tenderly began to apply gilt with a brush...
...twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks, so old and termite-riddled that they list crazily against one another. The children are naked and dirty, the women haggard, and much of the cooking is done on the sidewalk over charcoal braziers-rice, fried bananas, very little meat...
...Cabinet. In the back country, often carried in a hammock, the traditional mode of travel for Liberian VIPs, he palavered endlessly with jungle chiefs. Eventually he set up a network of bush clinics, experimental farms, and artificial ponds stocked with fish to supplement the meager native diet of rice and cassava roots...
...upon stacks of tape recordings of satellite data, neatly sorted according to tracking station-Singapore, Ibadan, Lima, Heidelberg. In another, students pored over the squiggly lines that are man's first clues to the geography of outer space. Other students tested electrical components no bigger than grains of rice, soldering them together with hair-thin wires, and carefully fitting them into assemblies...