Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy of political novels that attacked widespread "Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing-if sometimes too polemically -on the growth and power of the United Fruit Co. Last week Asturias was busy on his eighth and ninth novels, one biographical and the other a dreamlike fantasy set in 16th and 17th century Guatemala during the Spanish conquest...
...circumstances going for them that were as pretty as bright-leaf tobacco: their cigarette business is holding up despite recurring cancer scares, and they are making money on diversification projects. R. J. Reynolds reported record sales of $495 million and record earnings of $43,139,000 from Chinese foods, fruit punch, and aluminum foil as well as tobacco products. P. Lorillard's diversified operation accounted for record quarterly sales of $147 million and earnings...
While acknowledging that "the so-called glamour of a Hollywood personality enhances my ability to sell," the sometime kiddie interviewer said fame did not always spell success. He noted that a fruit jelly business which used his name had been a failure...
...wordy example is Louisiana's 1,000-page backbreaker, which gets into such minute areas as declaring Huey Long's birthday forever a legal holiday. Georgia's offers $250,000 to the state's first discoverer of oil. California's exempts from taxation certain "fruit- and nutbearing trees under the age of four years." Such details belong in the statutory code, not the constitution...
...giant land tortoises, some 4-ft. across and weighing as much as 600 Ibs., creep across the pitted coral and ridged limestone surface of the island. Tiny flightless rails nestle amidst Aldabra's bushy scrub and mangrove forests, while above them swoop red-footed boobies, sacred ibises and fruit-eating bats. Twenty of the island's plant species are nonexistent elsewhere in the world; so are a host of its insect inhabitants...