Word: avocados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew north from Brazil trailing clouds of exaltation and exhaustion. In Rio the fancy hails & farewells (variously involving champagne toasts, oratory, autographs, roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
...Hawaiian sugar industry has been seriously threatened by bugs: 1) the sugar-cane leaf hopper was brought under control by parasites imported from New Guinea, Australia and China; 2) the anomola beetle was eventually laid low by a bug from Manila. A dramatic victory was won over the voracious avocado mealy bug, a native of Mexico. One of his old enemies was brought over from Mexico, and now both bug and parasite have disappeared...
...Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...bank teller challenged the signature of the vanished Margaret Logan on a check. Police questioned Louise, as they had 24 years before. Detectives searched the house, as they had searched Jake Denton's. The cellar floor was untouched. But near an avocado tree in the backyard they found a mound of earth. Inside was the body of Margaret Logan. She had been shot in the back...
...menu included: fruit cocktail (Texas grapefruit, Brazilian pineapple, Guatemalan bananas, Mexican papaya) ; vegetable plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...