Word: nut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...
...Christy Mahon, the peasant boy who became a hero by telling a tale of parricide. The scene is still Michael James Flaherty's peat-smoked shebeen (pub), and the rich poetic dialogue is still, as Synge said a good play must be, "as fully flavored as a nut or apple." For music the O'Farrell sisters borrowed Irish ballads. As for the lyrics, they did a remarkable job of bending Synge's own lifelike speech into rhyme...
Holy Concubines. The novel's first-person narrator, Ray Smith, is 1) a poet, 2) a coast-to-coast freight-hopping, hitchhiking bum, and 3) a species of religious nut who visualizes himself "wandering the world ... in order to turn the wheel of the True Meaning, or Dharma, and gain merit for myself as a future Buddha (Awakener) and as a future Hero in Paradise." He is a bug on prayer, and some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha...
...worry will be on the ground defense. The line, with Hank Keohane, captain Bob Shaunessy, Jim Keating, Bob Foster, Hal Anderson, Pete Briggs, and Stu Hershon held Buffalo to less than 50 yards rushing last week, and Crimson opponents all year will find this unusually strong unit a tough nut to crack...
...protesting against higher tuitions and Communist textbooks in the schools, were hustled off to jail, and some were beaten senseless. Then political demonstrators clashed in a wild melee of fists, stones, spears and daggers that killed five and seriously wounded seven. Troubles came to a climax at a cashew-nut plant outside the town of Quilon when strikers rushed the gates and the Communist-directed police opened fire, killing two and wounding...