Word: aku
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AKU-AKU, THE SECRET OF EASTER ISLAND (384 pp.)-Thor Heyerdahl-Rand McNally...
...recalled last week. "Sometimes a can of corned beef. But my big meal was dinner." And at parties and luaus, he really let go, consuming three bowls of two-finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down with plenty of beer and soft drinks. Under the new regime, Peter cut down...
...told the governor that by accepting gifts from local businessmen, "I have abused the trust placed in me." Incredulous, the governor advised his minister to 1) tell the police, 2) have himself examined at the local hospital. Braimah resigned and last month repeated his tale before Mr. Justice Aku Korsah, C.B.E. and an all-African tribunal...