Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flag-draped platform in the main square of La Ceiba, a banana port that has seen better days, President Ramon Villeda Morales of Honduras put democratic principles to personal test. A Communist speaker had just told a labor rally that Honduras had betrayed Latin America by breaking relations with Castro's Cuba.* Answered Villeda Morales: "The speaker who preceded me was exercising his right of free speech. But I ask you to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia." So saying, he stepped down and strode away...
...lift it to the surface. Army amphibious craft were ready to retrieve the capsule if it fell in the surf. Waiting out at sea were 65-ft. Navy speedboats; other special craft were on the alert should the capsule head in the wrong direction and land in the Banana River, the shallow lagoon behind Cape Canaveral. The chance that any of this complicated and costly equipment would be needed had been calculated at something like 1 in 100. But among the burdens (and the glories) of the U.S. military tradition is the principle that a man in distress is worth...
Then, at 900,000 feet, you'll get the feeling that you must have a banana!" The cartoon is excellent, but doesn't Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom have his left shoe on his right foot? JIM HONIGSCHMIDT Robbinsdale, Minn. ¶ So it seems, but not to Cartoonist Emmwood...
Marching north to do battle with the Communists, Royal Laotian soldiers tossed hand grenades in the Nam Song River and jumped in afterward to scoop up the stunned banana fish that floated to the surface. They swam, roasted pigs and fish over open fires, and drank plenty of Mekong rice whisky, paid for by their commanding officer and flown in every day by Sikorsky helicopters manned by U.S. civilian pilots...
Defeated VIP. A typical task taught to chimponauts requires them to watch three shapes flashed on a screen and decide by pushing the proper lever which shape is not like either of the others. By doing this correctly 18 times, a chimp earns a banana-flavored food pellet. Some of them become amazingly skillful. The champion so far is a chimp that worked the levers 7,000 times in 70 minutes with only 32 errors. A human VIP visiting the lab rashly tried the same task and made a much lower score...