Word: fermentation
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...growing cocoa," say the easy-going Gold Coasters. Their job is to cut the pods and lay the blue-green beans out to ferment and dry in the midday sun. The retail trade is handled by the "mammy-traders"-fat old market women, usually illiterate but smart enough to own and operate fleets of heavy trucks. Day & night, the "mammy-trucks" thunder down to the sprawling shantytown ports where fishermen put to sea in dugout canoes. The trucks bear striking legends: "The Lord Is My Shepherd-I Don't Know Why"; "Accra to Takoradi-With God's Help...
When war came, Couturier Yeo-Thomas, 38, a British citizen though he had lived most of his life in France, joined the R.A.F.; after France fell, he was transferred to Air Intelligence as a lieutenant. There he was assigned to work with the Gaullists in bringing the ferment of French resistance into a single movement...
...present News Chairman defined a university as "a place where nothing is static, where that noblest of all intoxicating processes, intellectual ferment, takes place constantly. It is a place where men are taught how to think, to judge, and to be free--to be free to judge and think as they...
Soapy plugged through law school to win his usual scholastic honor record, but this time he could not resist the bull sessions. Like all universities, Ann Arbor was in a ferment over the New Deal. The standard bull-session topics of sex and religion went out the window, and long debates raged over the day's headlines from Washington. Soapy thought of himself as a liberal Republican, but a close friend, Jim Denison (now a successful Los Angeles lawyer), convinced him that there could be no such animal. Soapy flipped resoundingly into the New Deal camp, much...
Hartford's more orthodox citizens looked somewhat askance at the perpetual ferment seething in the Hepburn house, and this attitude was sometimes reflected in the brutal behavior of the neighbors' pitiless young. Kate took to shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that...