Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that the few were giving way to the many, Incumbent Impresario Frank Gravatt gambled $80,000, brought in John Philip Sousa-and the monkey wrapped its tail around the flagpole...
...most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
Travel agents, steamship companies and airlines are reaching way out to bring in the faraway answers. A safari with Baffin Island Eskimos. A climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Shooting expeditions in Nepal. Eat roast monkey with the Yagua Indians of the Amazon, and watch them shoot poisoned darts. Fly over Victoria Falls. A traveler can subscribe to a sort of Island-of-the-Month Club, called Islands in the Sun, that briefs its members on the latest and the best. Bachelor Party Tours, clipper voyages to the Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips...
...prices, Paxton heatedly denied the charge. But he admitted that as he took over new divisions during his rise up the G.E. ladder, he never asked his subordinates if they had previously violated antitrust laws. "I contented myself with telling them I was unalterably opposed to this monkey business," he said. "I considered it womanish to ask a man what he had done in the past...
...meaning to, McNair takes over the physical and mental leadership. Mukasa regresses into a childish envy. He steals McNair's fountain pen, notebook and aspirin, or perversely argues that Africans are obviously "inferior" to Europeans. McNair is at last goaded into shouting at Mukasa, "You god-damned black monkey...