Word: groundnuts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When a five-year civil war in the early 1980s drove farmers to abandon their land and livestock, swarms of once docile domestic pigs and their offspring returned to the wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense of smell, vicious temperament and high birthrate -- sows can bear litters of up to 15 young four times a year -- the beasts are a formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production...
Gowon himself knew better. Desperately he recalled 600 troops from Bonny, a federal foothold in Biafra. From the Northern capital of Kaduna, another 500 came racing in on railroad cars. From Lagos itself, more troops moved out to meet the invading Biafrans. For transport they commandeered everything available; groundnut wagons rolled toward the front behind big red-and-silver municipal passenger buses. But hard as the federal troops hit back, the rebels continued to hold Ore. And since the rebel forces of Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu are largely Ibo tribesmen, Nigerians behind the front in Lagos retaliated...
...fickle palates. Herring lovers will drool at the wide selection offered on Denmark's $6.50 cold board. The Spanish pavilion's Toledo and Granada restaurants dish up a numbing array of French and regional dishes. Africans (or at least Americans of African ancestry) in native robes serve groundnut soup and couscous ($4.50) in Africa's tree house, while the diner lucky enough to have a table on the balcony finds himself eyeball-to-eyeball with an inquisitive giraffe. Indonesia's seven-course, $7.75 dinner is spiced by whirling Balinese dancers. There are also many good, inexpensive...
...with fat pocketbooks and fickle palates. Herring lovers will drool at the wide selection offered on Denmark's $6.50 cold board. The Spanish pavilion's Toledo and Granada restaurants dish up a numbing array of French and regional dishes por mucho dinero. Africans in native robes serve groundnut soup and couscous ($4.50) in Africa's Tree House, while the diner finds himself eyeball-to-eyeball with an inquisitive giraffe. Indonesia's seven-course, $7.75 dinner is spiced by whirling Balinese dancers. There are also many good, inexpensive restaurants. Cafe Hilton atop the Better Living Center offers...
...suave, beaky Etonian who left his father's paper, the conservative Spectator, to dally with fascism, then Communism, and finally settle down a little left of center, becoming Minister of Food in the postwar Labor government, imposing much-hated bread rationing and undertaking the ill-fated $100 million "groundnut" scheme, but was nevertheless one of his party's ablest thinkers; of a heart attack; in London...