Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth lift fluttered over the paddies, the Communists let loose with a blaze of bullets from the woods at the edge of the rice field. "The tree line seemed to explode with machine-gun fire," said one helicopter pilot. "It was pure hell." Virtually motionless, the banana-shaped helicopters were helpless targets at point-blank range; five of the hovering choppers were shot down, and nine others were riddled by enemy fire...
...effort to bring up men and supplies from the plains was backbreaking. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr made the trip over a Jeep path that was like a roller coaster 70 miles long and nearly three miles high. He reports: "The Jeep path begins at Tezpur, amid groves of banana and banyan trees, then climbs steeply upward through forests of oak and pine to a 10,000-ft. summit. Here the path plunges dizzily downward to the supply base of Bomdi La on a 5,000-ft. plateau, and then zigzags skyward again to the mist-hung Se Pass...
...comics are in full caper. One baggypants warns the guard of a nuthouse not to send any mail to Washington. "Why not?" asks the guard. "He's dead," replies the overripe banana, skittering into the wings. Seltzer bottles spew, leers are leered, strippers strip and strip. Ann Corio re-creates her "parade strip," fragrant in the memories of generations of Harvard graduates who used to attend her frequent symposia at Boston's Old Howard. When hefty Dolores Du Vaughan* undulates out of her costume and starts to give the proscenium arch the business, there are howls of "More...
Saturday Sport. The L.F.A. has produced nothing so depraved as the bestial Mau Mau rites. Such traces of relatively mild oathing ceremonies as banana leaf arches and the entrails of animals have been discovered deep in Kenya's forests, but most L.F.A. members are inducted with a simple pledge of allegiance that has even been administered on Nairobi buses...
Died. Enos, 6½, the chimpanzee who preceded Colonel John Glenn into orbit by three months, twice circling the earth on Nov. 29, 1961, in a Mercury capsule while pressing levers and munching banana-flavored pellets; of dysentery; at New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base...