Word: mango
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decoy. In Las Villas, Morgan urged the Dominicans on with a radio transmitter they had given him. "Our troops are advancing," he said, "but we cannot do it all. Send the Dominican legion!" One night, while Castro sat in the dark under a nearby mango tree to watch, a Dominican C46 put down at a Las Villas strip. As his men yelled "Death to Castro!" Morgan conferred at length with a man in priest's garb and five civilians. Morgan's men unloaded 13 bazookas and 40 cases of ammunition from the plane...
...Hindus. Q. Why am I a Hindu? A. Because my parents and grandparents were Hindus.") Eventually Ganesh stumbles on his true mission: a career as a masseur and mystical Hindu visionary. He discards his Western clothes for the traditional dhoti and koortah, nails a sign to his mango tree reading "GANESH, Mystic...
...environment that sang." The people sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer. I used to climb up in a mango tree and lie back and eat mangoes and look through the leaves...
Over Conakry, a city of sleepy charm with its thick-walled, whitewashed houses, its cool green mango trees, its shops and bars that bear the stamp of France (Le Royal St. Germain, A la Chope Bar, Chez Maitre Diop), an air of harassed improvisation fell. For lack of help, ministers had to do the secretarial work while visitors clogged their waiting rooms. Telephones did not work, clerks scuttered about looking for the only copy of the diplomatic list. Messages were sent in to the Minister of Health while he was performing surgical operations...
...Squire Mytton (born 1796), known to his friends as "Mango, the King of the Pickles." was so rich that he yearned for discomfort. Wintertimes, Mytton went hunting wearing as little as possible, once horrified the gamekeepers by duck hunting in the nude. He once cured himself of hiccups by putting a candle to his nightgown: "enveloped in flames," he was soon too badly burned to burp. Despite his Spartan attire, Mytton "had a hundred and fifty-two pairs of trousers," spent half a million pounds in 15 years, died of d.t.s in a debtor's prison...