Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room service. "What's for lunch?" they asked. "Cheese and jam sandwiches," the tower replied on one occasion. "Oh, no," the hijacker complained. "No more cheese and jam sandwiches. We want meat, something with meat." Airport authorities reportedly sent 80 portions of chicken and rice, 80 salads and 80 coconut cakes to the plane. Later in the week, they sent 80 small jars of jam, 80 packs of butter and the same number of bread rolls. In his cockpit interview, Testrake remarked: "They sometimes bring us airline food and sometimes Lebanese food. I'd say on the whole the food...
Those with a keen interest in the development of palm trees would ordinarily be able to take BIOL S-105: Plants of the Tropics, but for some curious reason, the course is bracketed (i.e. offered in 1986, but not this year). Presumably, coconut and pineapple horticulturists will make plans to take the course at summer school next year...
...Miami's Little Havana, the event was treated as a holiday. A thanksgiving Mass was held in Coconut Grove, and scores of jubilant Cuban Americans phoned radio stations to express their approval. On the 83rd anniversary of Cuba's independence, Radio Marti, a U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro radio service, kicked off its inaugural broadcast at 1180 on the AM dial with a short salutation, "Buenos dias, Cuba," followed by a gentle folk song...
...afraid, perhaps, but sometimes bitter. Villagers around Ben Tre talk of defoliants--Agent Orange--sprayed by U.S. aircraft killing the coconut trees that provided the main source of their income. Vo Van Canh, 49, a former Viet Cong, points to his 17-year-old son, who has the arrested development of a two-year-old, the result, says Vo, of dioxin poisoning. At the Tu Du Women's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc says her studies, though not conclusive, suggest that women exposed to the defoliants have 15 times as many fetal deaths as those...
Nothing is that clear-cut in the world of these stories. Shacochis shows a keen awareness of lush disparities. He evokes the allure of a village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast...