Word: haitianize
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...battle, Haitian army cadets, using up 10,000 blank cartridges and 2,000 heavy charges of powder, re-enacted the final victory over the French. Twice the Haitians attacked the French ramparts, rebuilt on the original spot, and twice fell back. Then a daring cadet, taking the role of the rebel Colonel Capois, mounted a horse and led them forward again. In the real battle, the horse was shot from under Capois; in simulation, the mock colonel actually shot his own mount. Falling, he charged on afoot, like Capois, brandishing his saber...
...spent $300 million this year on cameras and gadgets, in order to snap Haitian market women, Manhattan shoeshine boys, Indian fakirs, and (above all) Junior, aged three. Innumerable times he went through the sweet agony of fetching his prints from the corner drugstore or the mailbox,* and if his work did not come out well, he blamed the unknown vandals in the darkroom, the makers of the camera, the film, the subject, and sometimes even himself. He spoiled about 10% of his film, enough to make individual shots of the entire population of the North American continent, and took enough...
Like many an American before him whose clothes had wilted in the Haitian heat, Jimmy Plinton found, when he tried to get his pants cleaned, that Haiti had no dry-cleaning plant. He also found that this fact has all sorts of consequences. Haitian businessmen suffered from it, because they could not find much of a market for woolens, gabardines or satins. Most Haitians stuck to washable linens, since only a few of the rich could afford to send clothes to be dry-cleaned in the States, or to throw them away after they got dirty. Haiti's legion...
...launched this Point Four program singlehanded in Haiti, Jimmy Plinton, now 38, is famous. Everyone from President Paul Magloire (whose glittering uniforms Jimmy cleans) to a back-country peasant greets him with a smiling, "Allo, Jeemie!" Few Haitians can understand why a man as successful as Jimmy still works in his own plant. But, responding to Jimmy's affection for the country and grateful for the revolution he has wrought, the Haitian government has awarded him the National Order of Honor and Merit, grade of Knight...
...Jointly financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank ($14 million) and the Haitian government...