Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover every war-at $1,000 a week plus expenses. In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M., Arthur Balfour, used to drop by at his rooms for a shank-of-the-morning snack. In Venezuela he ate his first avocado, promptly introduced the fruit to the U.S. market. In Cuba he wrote fiery dispatches that, front-paged by Hearst, helped to push the U.S. into war with Spain; and once war was declared, R.H.D.'s spectacular reports on the Rough Riders helped make T.R. a national hero. In Belgium, two years before his death...
Just how many Muslims can be mustered on the outside was demonstrated last month when Elijah Muhammad stirred 4,000 of the faithful at a big rally in Chicago, celebrating the 30th annual convention. Surrounded as usual by his strapping "Fruit of Islam" bodyguards, he blasted "Negro intellectuals" as "the potential enemies of their own people. Certainly I'm not college trained, but the responsibility of my own people has been placed on my shoulders by the Lord of the Worlds. You can kill me," he cried. "I wouldn't run from death, if I saw it coming...
...program, perhaps the classic Presidential achievement, required a special committee, two years of meetings, a book, three years of negotiations, and finally came out under the aegis of Buck as much as Conant. If this was the result of Conant's occasional absence from town, it was also the fruit of the total responsibility for the Faculty held by the Dean. The President was not sufficiently in contact with the Faculty simply to create the program; he had to resort to a fundamental statement of theory and educational policy unparalleled in the recent history of Harvard...
South Africa runs to $2½ billion. London and New York have been chary for the past year of putting vitally needed money into the Union's gold mines. New funds might now dry up entirely. The Commonwealth market takes 70% of South Africa's fruit and half its wine and brandy...
...like all human beings, and know that they are suffering, but they do not believe that change is possible." In one village, an agriculturist came and persuaded some of the less suspicious farmers to let him use a few worn-out fields for demonstration plots. He grew vegetables and fruit, instead of the Sicilian grain. "The first year, the people thought he was crazy, but then they saw his yields. The year after there were 39 similar plots, and the year after that...