Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financial prosperity is the success of its best-known commercial enterprise, the Mushroomburger restaurant on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard; it features, along with more or less authentic Indian dishes, some specialties that are exotic in name only, such as Himalayan snowballs (choco late sundaes topped with coconut...
Under Fertig's inventive leadership, the guerrillas governed entire provinces, printed their own money, ran their trucks on alcohol distilled from coconut beer, even maintained a miniature but useful navy. Most important was probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur...
...minister. But only a few were there to mourn. Most of them were waiting for Cheddi and Janet Jagan, the Marxist husband and wife team who misrule the small, self-governing colony perched on South America's northeast coast. When the Jagans arrived, the crowd surged forward hurling coconut shells, bottles, bricks and stones at their Prime Minister. Pulling a coat over his head, Jagan fled with his wife to a car and sped away as the rioting spread. By the time police dispersed the demonstrators seven hours later, some 100 were injured, 150 arrested...
...female majority of novel readers may enjoy being told that "to worship woman is to redeem the world." The Western male, however, may feel as mixed up as the lady who called Rama a "lecherous eunuch," and wonder about the Eastern profundities that sprinkle the book like sacred coconut in the curry. Example: "What is holiness but the assurance man has of himself?" Nor is there much help from the book's epigraph which quotes from the guru: "Waves are nothing but water. So is the sea." While conceding that it probably sounds better in Sanskrit, the bemused Westerner...
...Coconut Grove for the midnight show...