Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...active player in American baseball fills that formidable job better than a burly, bulging (5 ft. 9 in., 205 Ibs.), cocoa-colored catcher named Roy Campanella, currently enjoying one of the best seasons of his long career on the best team in baseball...
...make a racy and amusing picture of high and low life in Regency London. As Harriette tells it, she left her father's house at 15 to "place myself under [the] protection" of Lord Craven. The stolid lord proved "a dead bore," talking far into the night about cocoa trees. "I was not depraved enough to determine immediately on a new choice," says Harriette, "and yet I often thought about it. How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honourable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else...
Refreshment Stand. An office drinking fountain that also supplies steaming hot water for mixing instant coffee, tea, cocoa and soup has been put on sale by Ebco Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ohio. A blue button operates either a cold-water bubbler or a faucet; a red one turns on the hot water faucet...
...think anybody likes him very much. Since Stalin's death we have seen him going back toward Moscow." Returning to Rio de Janeiro after inaugurating a big power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along in his wake, was the first to make it to the safety of a nearby...
...America is a direct result of West Germany's postwar industrial comeback and its historic need to "export or perish." The springboard was the war in Korea, which frightened Latin America into loading up on cars, printing presses, lathes, blast furnaces, chemicals and generators in return for coffee, cocoa, sugar, bananas, wool and hides...