Word: cassavas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have filled Biafra's towns to overflowing; other thousands are packed into refugee camps that have neither enough food nor enough medicine. At Umuaka Camp near Port Harcourt, where 100 refugees have to share a 15-by-15-foot room, the daily ration consists of two cups of cassava, a starchy, sawdust-like root. When Wilde visited there, a child had just died-it was a year and a half old and weighed no more than eight pounds. Its mother was too weak to brush the flies off the body. "This is a children's war," said...
Swollen Ankles. But there was no backing out now. What was more, Sukarno said, Indonesia wanted no more aid from U.N. agencies-a remark that must have stirred the bellies of his underfed audience. "What is UNICEF?" cried Sukarno. "It is powdered milk. I prefer to eat cassava [a flour-yielding root]. FAO sends experts who know nothing about Indonesia's agriculture. I say to them, To hell with your...
...atomic-bomb shelter, an underground swimming pool, a private chapel, a trophy room, a cinema, a strong room large enough to hold all the gold in Africa, and a kitchen big enough to prepare all the fufu (Liberia's national dish, a stew based on the cassava plant) that anyone could eat. Tubman's new home combines the comfort of a garish four-star hotel with the appearance of a department store the week before Christmas...