Word: banana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...escaped the floods than worse disaster loomed. In the hills the soaked ground gave way here & there, slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana and sugar plantation laborers to keep communications open, evacuate the people to the coast. The rains fell harder. As though the soil were determined to wash back into the sea, avalanches of St. Lucia's black clay poured off the high ground. They blotted out roads, pushed telephone poles...
...manner of a man of 50, will presumably continue dictating Montgomery Ward's policies, he last year began retiring from active business life when he quit U. S. Gypsum's presidency, which he had held for 32 years. Said he once to an inquisitive Ward stockholder: "I banana-peeled into this place and then couldn...
...again. Both revolts were put down, with hanging and shooting. Life has not improved much since 1865 for the 1,000.000 Jamaica Negroes. Lately they have not been able to get work in other islands of the West Indies. A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3. Year ago there was a boatmen's strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering like coffee in a percolator. Last winter cane-cutters on the sugar plantations at the east end of the island refused to work. The strike spread down the railroad...
...young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes and machines, build bookcases, boats. Symptomatic also of the change in Eton is the fact that in their-weekly one-hour drawing period boys today may draw railway engines if they like, instead of the conventional pair of oranges and a banana...
...Slip on a Banana by M. Dorothy Doyle, a realistic wax banana draped delicately with a miniature woman's slip...