Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
Bonampak was so big that Healey returned to civilization to get some help. Last winter United Fruit, in cooperation with the Carnegie Institution and the Mexican Government, sent a full-dress expedition to explore...
Entree. In Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Botany Professor Lawrence M. Rohrbaugh had a suggestion for finicky fruit eaters: throw away the apple and eat the worm; it is more nourishing...
...plumpest literary plum of World War II-the memoirs of Winston Churchill-fell this week to LIFE and the New York Times. It was prize fruit of massive size (projected as five volumes, 1,000,000 words), and many a newspaper, syndicate and magazine broker had hopefully shaken the tree. The price for the U.S. serial rights Churchill kept to himself, but gossips had been guessing for more than a year that his remembrances would sell for a record $1,000,000 or more...
Author Miller does not apply the simple Biblical test for such prophets: "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit...