Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coral-and-palm flyspeck 1,300 miles northeast of Australia, Nauru has an area of 8½ square miles and a population of 2,700. Only 100 years ago, it was a virtually unknown battleground of savages who guzzled coconut toddy and sported necklaces of human teeth; in 1852 the Nauruans inhospitably chopped up the entire crew of the visiting American brig, India. Since the turn of the century, however, life for the islanders has been one long enchanted evening...
...Cognac & Coconuts. The diet-drink boom is taking place side by side with a major shift in U.S. tastes to more offbeat flavors and less sweet soft drinks. Soft drinkers can now choose from more than 300 different labels, flavored with everything from cognac (Dr Pepper's Pommac) to coconut milk (Yoo-Hoo's Milkette). Schweppes' Bitter Lemon now accounts for a third of Schweppes' sales in the U.S., though it has only been on the market one year. Even Elsie the Cow is out to milk the market. Borden has just put on the shelves...
...First Lady of Song" title held these many years by the incomparable Ella. At 27, with three LPs high on the bestseller charts and a rapidly burgeoning following, Nancy Wilson figures to be the greatest pretender for a long time to come. At her opening at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove last week, the crowd of 1,000 voted her everything but the deed and title to the place...
...anyone can tell, on their own initiative, 10,000 villagers-all except the sick, the aged and the very young children-turned out for 27 straight days and dug a ten-mile ditch around the elongated village. The moat begins at the riverbank, marches through rice fields and coconut groves, curls around the spurs of two foothills, across a marshy neck of the sea, and returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became a wall, 20 ft. wide...
Next on Karume's agenda was land reform, a basic concern of any African revolutionary leader. Last week, Karume announced that the huge, Arab-owned clove and coconut plantations on the main island would be "reallocated." Also nationalized were the shops and houses of Stone Town, from the tops of their Moorish-styled roofs to their brass-studded mahogany doors. All of this could only please the black majority on whom Karume bases his popularity. Equally pleasing was his crackdown on those bastions of squash and snobbery, the clubs. Visiting British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys was sipping...