Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Costa Ricans regard their country as a model of peacefully prosperous democracy nestled in the midst of Central America's turbulent belt of banana republics. And, mostly, they are right. The government has a reputation for honesty, the coffee-based economy is in relatively good shape, and there are ten times as many schoolteachers as members of the 1,200-man Civil Guard, the republic's only armed force. But Costa Rica has known sieges of political fury. In the past few months, as the country prepared to choose a successor for President Mario Echandi, there were...
...Zealand has promised to bulwark Western Samoa's copra, cocoa and banana economy for three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
...banana-shaped Shawnee helicopters, carrying a maximum of 21 soldiers and able to stay aloft three hours without refueling, should be invaluable in the jungle fighting against the Communist guerrillas, putting down South Vietnamese reinforcements at precisely the spot they are needed. As he stepped ashore in Saigon last week, one U.S. pilot said: "We have mixed emotions about being here, but our job is to fly the bananas and that's what...
...would come to "curse" the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school integration decision. YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US, thundered a 1956 Sullens editorial charging that anyone who was "not worried over the imminence of miscegenation, mixed marriages and mongrelization" had "no more backbone than a skinned banana." When Sullens died four years ago, the editor's chair passed to onetime News Carrier Boy Jimmy Ward, and the News's racist drum missed not a beat...
...Banana Flavor. The plan was to allow Enos to orbit the earth three times before parachuting the capsule into the Atlantic. But in case of trouble, ships and planes had been deployed in eight widely separated landing places. As the capsule soared over Africa for the second time, everything was normal. While it was crossing the Indian Ocean, Enos was doing minor tasks that earned him sips of water and ten small, banana-flavored pellets, which were delivered mechanically when he pushed the proper levers. But as the capsule approached Australia, the monitor station at Muchea on the west coast...