Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
Limited Liability. In North Sacramento, Calif., Judge J. Louis Missall acquitted Adolph John Machold of a charge of throwing a banana peel out of a car, commented: "Of all the things which are thrown out on the highway, a banana peel is probably among the least offensive...
...would be interested to know to what purpose you published the picture of Mr. Capote and Miss Monroe [April 4]. Perhaps you could try for a shot of Carson McCullers picking her teeth, or Tennessee Williams slipping on a banana peel. Is it newsworthy that Mr. Capote (who is a fine writer) is not a good dancer, or that he is shorter than Miss Monroe...
Following my own advice, I heaped my plate with at least a dozen concoctions. One was a colorful combination of cranberries and bananas, another was reminiscent of hash. The waiter informed me that it was, "Peppers, apples, meat, pickles, fish, carrots, potatoes, and perhaps more." It was probably the "perhaps" I didn't like. When I'd finished the cheeses, cold cuts, fishes, meats, and salads I returned to the smorgasbord table. I was scraping the bottom of the banana and cranberry bowl as a plump, seventyish woman in chet's attire bustled in to fill the dish...
...almost singlehanded. In a tense overtime period, Hot Rod had really turned it on. He fired a foul shot-and sank it-from behind his back. With time running out, he stood there, calmly chomping on his bubble gum while he twirled the ball on the tip of his banana-broad fingers. When two G.W. defenders moved in on him, he rolled the basketball down his back and flipped away an accurate left-handed pass. Driven to distraction, one G.W. player waited impatiently till he got his hands on the ball, then hurled it into the stands...