Word: mango
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People in Private Cars. The deserted road was a grim reminder of the threat which the Huks represent for the young republic. Along it dozens of villages were deserted. Fruit rotted on mango and papaya trees. Fields were reverting to jungle. The Huks sack villages, carry off all their food and many of their young men to the Huk mountain hideouts. The U.S.-educated provincial governor, Juan Chioco, told me that nearly 150,000 people of the 500,000 in Nueva Ecija province have been forced to flee their homes...
...Valley-like a soldering iron being run slowly up a dowager's spine. While chickens fell dead and pavements shimmered like cookstoves, the hot air spread east and west. Soon it was hot from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. And it stayed hot-hot as Zamboanga in mango-picking time...
...ones who are too weak to walk remain where they are landed until they starve. Many of them try to prolong their sufferings by consuming inedible or semi-edible substances-hard woody roots . . . a dark green powder, prepared by drying and pounding certain leaves . . . heaps of banana skins and mango stones scavenged in the streets...
When the First Brigade got to Guantanamo, it debarked in a juicy mango swamp near the Navy station. General Smith took one look at underbrush that no man could walk through, began snapping peremptory messages to Washington. Soon building materials and half a dozen bulldozers arrived from the States. The Marines prepared for housekeeping...