Word: fruited
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...from Jamaica in his early 20s, 17 years before I was born. He never discussed his life in Jamaica, but I do know that he was the second of nine children born to poor folk in Top Hill. He literally came to America on a banana boat, a United Fruit Co. steamer that docked in Philadelphia. He went to work for Ginsburg's (later named the Gaines Co.), manufacturers of women's suits and coats at 500 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's garment district. He started out working in the stock room, moved up to become a shipping clerk...
...made is a commitment over some years to American history which is now showing some fruit," Kirby said
...that would call for "substantial and decisive air strikes" if the Bosnian Serbs threatened the U.N. safe haven of Goradze. Once the conference was under way, it took 24 hours to convince the allies that the West had to change the way it did business. That effort eventually bore fruit in the form of several new moves, most of which were hammered out in a series of follow-up nato meetings in Brussels. Perhaps the most important change was insistence that the so-called dual-key arrangement, which gave U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali veto authority over nato...
While most species of bats live in vast colonies in caves or trees, some nest in spider webs; others fashion "tents" out of leaves. In southern India, for example, the male short-nosed fruit bat spends as long as two months painstakingly chewing the veins of leaves and palm fronds until they collapse into a shelter that will house him and a harem of as many as 20 females...
...nearly a fourth of all mammal species. The only known group of flying mammals, they range in size from Thailand's tiny bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny, to Indonesia's giant flying fox, with wingspans of nearly 6 ft. Many bats feed on insects, while others prefer fruit, nectar or pollen. A few feast on fish, frogs, rodents and, yes, blood. Contrary to legend, however, vampire bats, which dwell in Latin America, suck the blood of grazing cattle and horses, not sleeping humans...