Word: banana
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...want this new country to be a sham, a fraud, a hollow shell with the mere trappings of independence-a brand-new flag, sleek limousines, black faces in Parliament and the U.N. I do not want Zimbabwe ever to become another banana republic...
...sponsoring a boycott of all products sold by United Brands, Inc, and its subsidiaries, including Chiquita Banana and Sun Harvest...
...James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel Hana-Maui, an island landmark...
Compton said independence is the key to strengthening the nation's economy as the independent government plans to institute a duty-free indistrial zone to encourage foreign investment and decrease dependency on the banana...
...inflation fighter was to be heard from again. On a T.V. news interview he captured the Administration's it-will-all-work-out-if-we-just-pray-hard-enough attitude when, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, he said that in the future he would say the word banana as soon as that wicked word depression overcame...