Word: lorenzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security Council was "a spittoon, even worse than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after all, it's a branch of the State Department...
...midweek Khrushchev anxiously nursed forward the one Soviet issue that had any hope of winning a favorable U.N. vote: a resolution demanding immediate freedom for all colonies everywhere. One after another, Afro-Asian delegates marched to the podium to promise their votes. Then Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong urged that the resolution be widened to include discussion of "the inalienable right to independence of the peoples of Eastern Europe...
...good, honest Indiana farmers. He afflicts them variously with lust, greed, chronic childbirth, madness, lung surgery and death by water, gunshot, prolonged beating and Addison's disease. As it is customary for costume novelists to concern themselves also with a certain amount of factual information-the politics of Lorenzo's court, or the intra-igloo mores of Eskimos-Robinson acquaints his readers along the way with the history and techniques of the U.S. whisky industry from 1840 till Prohibition...
...bold adventurers who ranged through Central America toppling governments and creating the sprawling United Fruit Co. banana empire are long gone. There was Lorenzo Dow Baker, the founder, a Massachusetts schooner captain who got into bananas back in 1870 when he found that the fruit he skeptically picked up for 25? a bunch in Jamaica fetched $2.50 a bunch or more in New York. There was Minor C. Keith, who hacked through Central American jungles a railroad line that, according to legend, cost a human life for every tie in the first 25 miles. And then there was Russian-born...