Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that set the city and the nation on its ear . . . Weeks went by. Our friends ignored it. Then we heard [the News was] holding meetings . . . All those brains! All that money! What were they going to come up with? Then came B-day. Our friends brought forth something called Banana [i.e., Bonanza] Bills-a game that was, so to speak, 'Lucky Bucks' spelled backwards...
...Costa Ricans knew that their new President José Figueres intended to ask for a drastic revision in the government's contract with the United Fruit Co., the country's biggest business. Last week the President uncovered an ambitious, long-range plan that would eventually put banana production in Costa Rican hands, but leave distribution to United Fruit...
President Figueres chose to outline his plan in a 2,000-word letter to U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hill. Terms of the existing contract, he said, are fair and just only in the spirit of 50 years ago, when banana cultivation was a little-known and risky venture. Now Costa Ricans are capable of producing commercial crops, and he proposed to buy out the company plantations-housing, schools, hospitals, machinery, servicing equipment and all. His government would resell the plantation properties to Costa Ricans, but would keep and run the schools and hospitals...
...even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...
...skull was obviously human, but the apeishness of the jaw made some authorities suspicious. Others accepted both as genuine. In honor of Finder Dawson they labeled Piltdown man Eoanthropus (dawn man) dawsoni. To some anthropologists, who often jump to conclusions as quickly as a monkey jumps on a banana, the contrast between the skull and the jaw all but "proved" him to be a link connecting apes...