Word: mocha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...
...which cannot be achieved in any other way, save, of course, through religion. It does not encourage eroticism-on the contrary. The man who is far from his wife takes qat in order to help him remain faithful to her." Yemenites grow the best coffee in the world (near Mocha), but they export nearly all of it, because they like qat better. Outside the Yemenites, nobody likes...
Coffee Jamok (Contr. of Java-Mocha Salt Sea Dust
British bombees last week gratefully gulped mugs of the finest Mocha coffee, quite unconscious of the fact that Arab experts in Whitehall were afraid that their beverage might cause a diplomatic incident...
...compound of Aden's Government House one day this spring ambled two mean, dusty camels, bearing on their backs 1,200 pounds of coffee for Governor Sir John Hathorn Hall. The coffee was a gift from the Imam of the Red Sea state of Yemen. Connoisseurs call the Mocha coffee of Yemen the finest in the world, but Sir John had an even better reason to be grateful for the gift...