Word: ceiba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact with the Devil, the old Congolese told me, he should take a hammer and a big nail, look for a young ceiba-tree in the countryside and hammer on the trunk hard three time. As soon as the bugger hears this call, he come, quite cool and cocky, as if he didn't care a damn...
...HONDURAS Under the Ministry of Health, nurses will teach in the National School of Nursing in La Ceiba, in schools for auxiliaries or in hospitals. Social workers will work with the Justa Nacional de Bienestar Social in community centers, coops, small industries, clubs, health, recreation, arts and crafts and in public health campaigns. Those Volunteers working with the head start program will turn pre-school feeding stations sponsored by the local communuity, municipality or INBS into unofficial kindergartens...
...flag-draped platform in the main square of La Ceiba, a banana port that has seen better days, President Ramon Villeda Morales of Honduras put democratic principles to personal test. A Communist speaker had just told a labor rally that Honduras had betrayed Latin America by breaking relations with Castro's Cuba.* Answered Villeda Morales: "The speaker who preceded me was exercising his right of free speech. But I ask you to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia." So saying, he stepped down and strode away...