Word: haitianize
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...Haiti, whither the disease was brought by slaves from Africa in 1509, now has the world's highest incidence of yaws. Since 1943 the U.S. Sanitary Mission, backed by $150,000 from the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and an equal amount from the Haitian Government, has worked hard on a project to eradicate the disease in selected districts of southern Haiti...
Choice sirloin and T-bone steaks cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...
Sometimes the Americans met and played tennis with upper-class Haitians at the swank Turgeau Club. And businessmen with a stake in Haitian foreign trade watched closely last week as President Dumarsais Estime dropped nationalist leaders from his Cabinet. But mostly the escapists lived far above and remote from the impoverished millions of the black republic. Their chief worry: that other Americans would come to Haiti, run up prices, put an end to paradise...
...Smoky" to "Strange Fruit" and Hard Time Blues." One of the most poised persons in the entertainment world, he handled songs like "John Henry," "The Foggy Foggy Dew," and "The Outskirts of Town" in easygoing style, though he had no microphone. Between his song groups, Josephine Premice did Haitian dances and sang quite nicely, thriving on the almost overly enthusiastic drumming of her accompanist...
Beauteous 18-year-old Fortunia burned up the stage in a sizzle of tropical dancing. Daughter of a Haitian father and a blonde Polish mother, Fortunia was brought up in Poland, thrown into a Nazi concentration camp during the war, liberated by Negro G.I.s...