Word: banana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heady days of gunboat diplomacy and banana republics, U.S. companies like United Fruit and Jersey Standard often intervened in the internal politics of South American countries. Sometimes, to help promote their foreign interests, the companies could count on the diplomatic and military leverage of the U.S. Government. Those days are long past. But executives of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., the largest U.S. conglomerate, apparently yearn to carry on in the not-so-grand old tradition. The testimony in two weeks of hearings by the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, which showed how ITT and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...groin. I landed near some paddies 50 miles south of Hanoi. About 15 villagers jumped me and tore off all my clothes except my shorts. Then they saw my leg. In about five minutes a medic came, gave me a shot and made a splint out of a banana tree. They put me in a fish net and started carrying me-when the planes came...
...planes. But for Kasler the Viet Nam War was all over, and he wished that they would go away. He was in intense pain and very thirsty, but because of the presence of U.S. planes overhead his captors laid him in a ditch and hid him under banana leaves...
...Green Pope), relaxing over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...
...wearing a white silk shirt and white flannels presents a very rich, dreamlike atmosphere," says New York Designer Ralph Lauren, whose Polo label has looked longingly back at the '20s for some time. There are dissenters inevitably. Designers Galanos and Halston view Gatsby by any name as a banana-oil slick. It is "not an influence on truly fashionable people," says Halston, whose clients include Jackie Onassis and Mrs. William Paley. "Women have finally settled down to pants, and that's the way it will be for a long time. Do you expect a woman today...