Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cabal called the American Academy of Humor Columnists, whose other members are Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, Art Hoppe, Gerald Nachman and Don Ross, and whose sole function is to give members an excuse to write insulting letters to one another. (She was admitted, says Buchwald, because she won a banana-bread bake-off with another woman and also promised to make coffee and clean up.) Her friends are admiring and loyal. "There is an awful lot under the hair curlers," says one of them, Columnist Ann Landers. "She is savvy and sophisticated enough not to come across as too savvy...
...international airport, a harbor and an air force. Such tragicomic aspirations and the tyrannical rule that enforces them have made Sebe's fief something of an embarrassment even to its stepmother. Said the moderate Johannesburg Star: "Ciskei has become a byword for all the worst excesses of banana republics...
...competition goes, "the top collegiate level is just as good as any international junior competition," added Stanley, whose credits include winning Brazil's Banana Bowl last year and placing high in both the Junior Wimbledon and the Junior U.S. Open tournaments...
...anywhere else in the country," he said. As for the government campaign against the rebels, he declared that the situation "has been brought under control." The curfew has been cut back to the period from dusk to dawn, and buses and private transportation are once again permitted. President Canaan Banana, who is a member of the Matabele tribe, assured Zimbabweans that the curfew that still existed in some parts of the province would "not last a day longer than necessary...
More recently, the 1960s featured decoration with protest banners, with paint becoming a leading instrument of destruction. A recent observer reported decoration with banana peels...