Word: guano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peru introduced the islanders to another benefit of civilization. A thousand of them were carried off to slave labor in the guano quarries. Five months later, when Britain and France protested the atrocity, Peru graciously shipped all 15 survivors home. They brought smallpox with them and an epidemic swept the island. By 1870, an original population of 5,000 had been reduced to exactly...
...were under surveil lance. Nearly 100 members of California's Golden Gate Audubon Society set out in a three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black-footed albatrosses...
...long and candid discussion of marriage, the schema emphasizes the quality of life brought to marriage through self-giving conjugal love rather than procreation, expresses the hope that future scientific discoveries will clear the way for church acceptance of some form of birth control. However, as Bishop Emilio Guano of Leghorn pointedly reminded the council after an audience with Pope Paul VI, the birth-control issue will ultimately be decided by the Pontiff himself after a special papal commission has completed a thorough study of new contraceptives...
...island of Santo Stefano is the kind of loaded microcosm an experienced reader can smell a mile off. So, it happens, can everyone else. Santo Stefano's main source of wealth is a rich guano deposit that envelops it in an aroma visitors find intolerable but that the natives are used to. "It smells like money to them," Ben muses...
...Golden Guano. The imagination and energy that rebuilt Grace flows from President J. Peter Grace Jr., 48, the barrel-chested grandson of William Russell Grace, who founded the company in 1854. Founder Grace, a scrawny, 22-year-old refugee from the Irish potato famine, began as a ship's chandler to the merchantmen who were flocking to Peru for cargoes of guano, the mineral-rich bird droppings used as fertilizer. With his profits as a chandler, he outfitted his own ships, established sugar plantations, and soon had created an intricate distribution network up and down the west coast...