Word: macadamia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oldest and most fertile island, Kauai, spreading Plumiera (frangipani), symmetrical Norfolk pine, fragrant pikake blossoms and the umbrella-shaped monkeypod trees set off lush folded ridges, twisting valleys and cascading waterfalls. Youthful (2,800,000-year-old) Hawaii has arid, cactus-sprinkled, sleepily sloping uplands, rain forests, anthurium and macadamia groves, bizarre moonscapes of rock lava topped by the snow-capped peaks of Mauna Kea (13,796 ft.) and still-active Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.). Middle-aged Maui is dominated by the rugged crater of dormant Haleakala (House of the Sun). At its rim nestles a Defense Department observatory...
What the world needs is a suspense novel in which a guileless Arab touring New York stumbles across a gang of Macadamia nut smugglers and is pursued across the wastes of Scarsdale by admen armed with barbecue spits, while sullen peasants riding power mowers close in menacingly. In the meantime, thriller writers still prefer the Mideast or Southern Europe for their setting. Two of the better new blood-and-Baedekers...
...base of the Islands' economy is "the sugar and the pineapple industries, the tournist business, and government defense activities," David said. He added that there was room for expansion, "especially in the by-product areas." He cited the Macadamia nut industry, Hawaiian flowers, and technical improvements in the use of sugar products like bagasse and molasses as examples of the "new and expanding industries...