Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before announcing the amnesty, however, Ulbricht had released prisoners-strictly on a business basis. Taking a leaf out of Castro's ransom book, he quietly "sold" Bonn 800 prisoners, most of them West German citizens, in exchange for several million marks worth of butter, coffee, cocoa and sugar. The transaction was accepted last summer on behalf of West Germany by Vice Chancellor Erich Mende. When word of it leaked out last week, it was branded by the West German press as a grim "traffic...
Following Orders. As far as Say-Hey is concerned, Jake Shemano is "the best friend I have in the world." Mays has learned to live on his allowance, and when he is not over at the Shemanos', he lounges happily in his $100,000 cocoa-and-white split-level pad in the fashionable Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, watches TV on one of his three sets, and keeps open house for the neighborhood kids...
...encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
Next day, Jack, Jackie and the kids played host to 2,000 underprivileged Washington children, who downed 200 gallons of cocoa and 10,000 sugar cookies while a detachment of Scotland's famed Black Watch Regiment of bagpipers skirled and twirled on the White House lawn. It was the beginning of Jackie's official appearances after the death of two-day-old Patrick Bouvier Kennedy last August...
Once, only professionals risked their money at the perilous pastime of making such esoteric guesses as how many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks of the 1950s, thousands of amateurs-from house wives to retired mailmen-are trying for even quicker profits in the fitful, fickle commodity futures. Sales on the Chicago exchange have risen 80% in three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them...