Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet the needs of their down-to-earth little islands. That concern was heightened a few hours before independence, when Maurice Bishop was arrested and clamped in jail. In unconscious imitation of Marie Antoinette, Gairy said: "Grenada is a Garden of Eden. The people must eat bananas and local fruit in place of imported rice and flour...
...write fiction about the war; Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), about a British bomber pilot shot down over French soil, was one of the outstanding results. Bates was best known in the U.S. for The Darling Buds of May (1958), a novel about the zany fruit-picking, scrap-dealing Larkin family that was made into the movie The Mating Game...
...musical fruit...
Evil had no chance against such moral exemplars. The Shadow, who was invisible to malefactors, informed them that "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit." Dr. Christian, an M.D. with the deductive powers of Nero Wolfe, announced that "when you've lived as long as I have, you'll find justice always gets the breaks. [PAUSE] Wrongdoing never pays off in the end." Once the criminals were run to earth, Mr. District Attorney would prosecute them to the full extent of the law; there were few defense-attorney heroes in the old days...
Such earnest digging has also borne fruit in CHNS local stories. Matthews filed an item for papers in Pennsylvania revealing that a reporter for the Scranton Tribune also earned $5,000 a year as a "public relations assistant" to Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Mc-Dade. The Tribune accepted its employee's moonlighting calmly, but McDade sniped that the CHNS disclosure was "the worst story I've seen in ten years...