Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortable." The fourth child had to be inoculated three times before the treatment brought out pustules, and then he was delirious for two days. All in all, the family had to stay confined for seven weeks and to pay 18 shillings per person per week, as well as one guinea per inoculation...
...pages. Strahan and Cadell. 1 guinea...
...viscid green pods provide the distinctive ingredient in gumbo dishes-could become an important source of protein if cooks would use its ripe seeds as well as its tasty pods. Researchers with the National Academy of Sciences have been studying a protein-rich "winged bean" that grows in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and believe it could be successfully introduced into other warm rainy areas where the principal crops-yams, cassava, potatoes-are low in protein. "Believe me, the plant tastes good," says Plant Geneticist Theodore Hymowitz of the University of Illinois. "The flowers taste like mushrooms fried...
...program the motives that impelled massive redistribution from big landowners to the laborers who worked the estates and that eventually brought about the nationalizations of industry and various types of workers control which followed. And "Grandola" also expressed the emotions that demanded freedom for Portugal's colonialized peoples in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola...
Only after four decades of exploration did the world learn that the Niger flowed northeast, then took a mighty turn at Timbuctoo and continued south into the Gulf of Guinea at the slave-trading settlement called Brass...