Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petan & Pipi. Many of the dictator's enterprises are divided among his brothers. Swarthy Hector ("El Negro") is Secretary of State for War and Navy, with real estate on the side. Petan specializes in fruit and protection, operates a radio station. Pipi regulates prostitution. Prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are called cueros (hides...
...biggest country. Getulio Vargas, the man who introduced modern authoritarianism to Brazil and the New World 15 years ago, was out of the Presidency. And it had all happened with remarkably little fuss. Said Rio de Janeiro's Diario de Noticias: "The abdication was as easy as rotten fruit dropping off a tree...
...Conestogas have flown football teams, furniture, baby chicks, penicillin, fruit, vegetables, furs and race horses (see cut}. Last month, when the cruiser Astoria docked after 15 months in the Pacific, 120 of her crew chartered five Conestogas, whisked home in great style...
Close to the peak of Old Screamer Mountain, looking out over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education...
Morikawa had chummed with Occidentals in school days, but as they grew older "the creek between us grew wider." He was moved from his small fruit farm in British Columbia in 1942, corralled with other Japs in Winnipeg's old Immigration Hall. There they waited two weeks "like cattle at an auction" as farmers looked them over for work on sugar-beet farms. He farmed for 18 months, then got a job as a tinsmith. He sums up his life in Canada: "They tell us we don't assimilate. When we make friends with Occidentals...