Word: papayas
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...pins in their scalps by way of a medical examination, and a political cadre dropped in to try to work on Dodson, a Negro, by citing racial injustice in the U.S. The effect was to make Dodson burn, baby, burn. They also were compelled to buy candy, cookies and papaya at exorbitant prices to supplement their diets. "It was the most expensive prison camp in the world," cracks Dodson who spent $76 in his six weeks there...
...Heard, in the Senate Commerce Committee, from the director of a New York State cancer-research hospital, Dr. George E. Moore, that his institute is experimenting with "nontobacco cigarettes made of lettuce, cabbage, catalpa [a tree leaf], papaya and paper...
...early-morning gloom of Saigon's muggy pre-monsoon season, an alarm clock shrills in the stillness of a second-floor bedroom at 38 Phung Khac Khoan Street. The Brahmin from Boston arises, breakfasts on mango or papaya, sticks a snub-nosed .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver into a shoulder holster, and leaves for the office...
...fall, Mogadishu's voters prepared for their battle against indelibility by emptying the stores of nail-polish remover and other ink-deleting fluids days in advance of elections. But determined experimenters soon discovered that the allegedly indelible inks could be removed by home solvents ranging from gasoline to papaya juice...
...popularity wanes, and dresses from Hong Kong are air-freighted to the U.S. on racks, thus saving the importer the $1 a dress he would otherwise have to pay for pressing. Every morning, 6,000 Ibs. of Denver steaks are jet-flown to Phoenix, 20,000 Ibs. of Hawaiian papaya fly to West Coast markets, and a Manhattan shop, Cheese Unlimited, puts on sale oven-fresh brioches and croissants jet-lifted in from Paris...