Word: mango
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MANGO ON THE MANGO TREE (260 pp.)-David Mathew-Knopf...
...Come." One Indian newspaper has called Bhave "the Saint Paul of constructive work." Wherever he goes, roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...
Coak, who speaks only a bastard calypso, has predicted mango and artichoke plagues with 94 percent accuracy since he was burned for wizardry...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Oct. 24)--A sunken-eyed zombie, burned for wizardry and dead for 76 years, is our hottest lead to date. He prognosticates hurricanes and mango blights in the thick voodoo country northeast of here...
...everyone agrees with Minister Bhargava. Last week the mango growers of the Chandigarh Valley were up in arms. Arguing that the capital will take fertile land, some 170 farmers have been demonstrating against the city for five weeks, with torchlight parades during which they try to stop water-boring operations. The government's reply has been to arrest the demonstrators, take them out of the valley, and release them to walk home...