Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ceylon it is called parangi, in the Fiji Islands coco, in the Gold Coast dube. By these and some 80 other dread names, yaws is known the world over as a painful, crippling and highly contagious disease that covers the body with sores and eventually eats away the outer flesh. Half its estimated 50 million victims, most of whom caught it as children, are in Africa...
Last week Joyita sat high and dry on a beach at Fiji, hugging her secret in silence, while official investigators from three nations pondered the problem. Perhaps, in time, they might find an answer better than that of the U.S. Navy captain who investigated the fate of Mary Celeste in 1873. "I hope and expect," he wrote in his official report, "to hear from her crew. But if we should never hear of them again, I shall remember with interest this sad and silent mystery...
Among the foreign delights served for the special Sunday lunch were Drained Crane Brains with Diced Sequoia Leaves from Zanzibar, and Lamprey Slice Floated on Essence of Llama Leaves from the Fiji Islands. The menu advertised Caribbean Delight with Holy Rolls for breakfast today...
...Mexico two years earlier, while working for his doctorate at the University. "I examined the Indians, and found they are just like other Indians. No, there's not excitement in my life," he continues modestly, "just field trips to Wisconsin and back. I'm interested in us, not Fiji...
...HOWLETT FIJI VISITORS' BUREAU SUVA Extravagant Devotion? Sir: The Church of England Newspaper has labeled as "rank heresy" the implications it found in our Holy Father's prayer [com posed for the opening of the Marian Year -TIME, Dec. 28]. If the implications were true, it would be heresy. The Pope himself would be the first to denounce idolatry of Mary...