Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dogs, the soldier's choice of meat. Horrors! Soldiers prefer, first of all, steaks of any kind, secondly, roast beef or pork. "Coffee weak, prefers cocoa to coffee." I can hardly stand that one. Army coffee, if you can call it that, is never weak, but is so strong it eats your throat out (in a delicious manner) as it goes down...
...Likes coffee weak, prefers cocoa to coffee...
...land under cultivation. Today all but a dozen of the oldest and slowest of these ships have gone to war (some of the best refrigerated ships have ignobly hauled steel ingots across the Atlantic), and the old hulks still in the Caribbean service must load high priority coffee, sugar, cocoa before hoisting one banana into their holds...
...crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...story starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...