Word: mango
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Saddened by much of what he found, Glenn showed the audience the sites of the ancient slave trade and pointed out the tall mango trees "grown from seeds spat out by slaves." He winced visibly at a beggar who had been blinded, deplored disease, illiteracy (80%), and the poached-out game lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle...
...corner newsstand is doing a nice business with its tropical fruit lifesavers. Banana lifesavers, mango lifesavers, coconut, pineapple, tangerine and orange. An ecstasy of esters. Looking into the newsstand through the large window heaped with apples and oranges, the old man with the dirty magazine is the center of a depraved still life...
Love Those Mangoes. Sugar is no longer rationed, as it was in 1963. Just about everything else still is-either that, or it appears on a feast-or-famine basis. "Right now," says one resident, "they've got so much corn they can't unload it. They keep saying: 'Eat corn, eat corn.'" Before that, it was eggs, then avocados, then mangoes. "We must find a way to use our mangoes-every single one," pleaded the Communist daily Hoy. Wrote one Cuban to a friend in Miami: "We substitute mangoes for squash, eat fried mangoes, mango...
...across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks. For lunch Ramoo eats another chapatty covered with watery gruel, and perhaps a slice of mango chutney hoarded by his wife to give the food some flavor. Then back to the plow...
...search for ancient gods might turn into a grim Götterdämmerung. Noted Gunther Wanderscheck, 33, on a scrap of paper dated three days after they left Cairo: "Our condition is very bad. We have only eight liters [about two gallons] of water and five cans of mango juice." Then the little VW stalled, and eight miles farther on the Micro Bus bogged down in the sand...