Word: kava
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrived in Fiji to celebrate the islands' 100th anniversary of becoming a British colony and the fourth birthday of its independence. Robed officials crouched in ritualistic gestures of respect, schoolchildren lined the roads and waved, and a considerate, perhaps mischievous chieftain gave Prince Charles a bowl of kava, a very potent local brew. Later, at a reception held in Suva, Fiji's capital, a less formally attired Charles witnessed at close range still more of the island's fundamental splendors, dancing in the balmy night with Helen Frankhen, a student at the University of the South Pacific...