Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impose such a strict diet that the victim feels forever hungry and deprived, or to prescribe special face lotions plus shampoos for the unproved relationship between dandruff and acne. Some cases can be cured, says Dr. MacKenna, by moderate restriction of sugars and starches, elimination of chocolate and cocoa in any form, from the diet, and nightly application of a paste containing 6% sulphur, 6% resorcin and 35% zinc oxide. Only those blackheads which can be squeezed out easily should be removed-every five days...
Just as the opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
Before dawn the recorded radio beat of tom-toms sounded out across the cocoa plantations and straw-hut villages of the Gold Coast, awakening hundreds of African officials and thousands of voters, the tribal cry of darkest Africa summoning everybody to an election. All day the voters calmly queued up outside the polling huts, picked up their ballots, had their thumbs smeared with indelible ink to prevent duplicate voting, walked into the huts and dropped their ballots into boxes...
...boxes were marked with party symbols-a rooster for the Convention Peoples Party of Kwame Nkrumah, 47, for four years the self-governing colony's Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953); a cocoa tree for the National Liberation Movement, meant to dramatize charges of graft in the Nkrumah government's Cocoa Marketing Board. "What you need is an honest government," cried the leader of the N.L.M., "one whose hand is not always in the public pocket...
...Nkrumah, born a Twi tribesman in a mud-hut village, graduate of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University ('39), leader since 1947 of his country's surge to get independence from the British, struck a higher note: "Do not listen to these madmen who talk to you of cocoa and corruption," he argued. "They simply hide the fact that they do not want independence for our country...