Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Offered a rare opportunity to wipe out the Communist Viet Cong's crack 514th Battalion, some 2,000 U.S.-supported government troops last week trapped 500 of the enemy in a swamp ringed with coconut and banana groves, moved in for the kill. But a single Viet Cong platoon managed to hold off a timid government battalion for five hours. Other government troops failed to contact the enemy before dark. Instead of slipping away in the night as usual, the Viet Cong blasted right through the government lines and escaped, killing 22 government soldiers, wounding...
...morning, and sometimes it rains in the evening." Those days are gone forever. Currently, a lot is happening in Ceylon, most of it ruinous. Declared a top government economist: "We've always lived well and without worry. Even the more humble people could pick a pineapple or coconut and catch a few fish. But now we're in real trouble...
...Texas folk singers called the Wanderers Three, and a performance by a local comedian named "Cactus" Pryor. And lying in wait for the Erhard palate were piles of pungent deer-meat sausage, snowy peaks of hominy grits, pits full of barbecued beef, and a rich chocolaty cake topped with coconut-pecan frosting made from a recipe brought to Texas by Germans who settled in nearby Fredericksburg...
...south lawn of the White House, some 70 feet from Caroline and John Kennedy's treehouse, swing and jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet missiles in Cuba, photos of Jackie and the children. Johnson lingered only briefly, decided to work...
Foretaste on Tobago. Swiftly, the wind rose to 75-m.p.h. hurricane force, then, to 90, 100 and 110. At noon on Sept. 30, Flora swept down on the island of Tobago, the legendary land of Robinson Crusoe off the Venezuelan coast. Entire plantations of coconut palms were flattened as by a scythe. It took only four hours for Flora to come and go. In her path she left 18 dead, hundreds injured, some 17,000 homeless, and property damage that helpless authorities estimated at many millions...