Word: avocado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart...
Died. Dr. David Fairchild, 85, agricultural explorer who was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 species of plants to the U.S. (including the soybean, papaya, avocado), in 1905 planted Washington's first Japanese cherry trees; of a heart ailment; in Coconut Grove...
...Other Colonel. In Guatemala City, that day, another colonel strode tight-lipped along the underground tunnel that leads from the executive mansion via an elevator to the presidential office on the second floor of the city's avocado-green National Palace. President Jacobo Arbenz, the stubborn, enigmatic career soldier who had started the trouble in the first place by flinging wide the palace doors and welcoming Communists into his government, had plenty to think about. But he may have taken a moment to recall that Castillo Armas had once been a school mate, a fellow graduate of the country...