Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself President in 1930. "God & Trujillo." No absolute ruler-not even France's Sun King-was more foppishly vain. Applying his own version of droit du seigneur, Trujillo took three wives, countless mistresses. Scattered about his peanut-sized fief were twelve palaces and ranches at which a full staff of servants faithfully prepared every meal every day just in case the master dropped in. At each mansion, Trujillo kept a full wardrobe of uniforms complete with white-plumed fore-and-aft hats...
...sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people to death." Raged Missouri's Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee: "What a way to run a business-any business, from a peanut stand to a bank. And yet that is the way we are running the greatest government on earth. Let us close the back door...
Given two chimpanzees (A and B), both "other directed," both infinitely fond of food scraps, and occupying neighboring cages in a public zoo. By making a fool of himself (by scratching, jumping, chattering, etc.), Chimp A wins the love and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches of the selfless little schoolchildren who visit the zoo. Question: How do A's antics affect the behavior...
Right from the start, the pickings were pretty fair. The French went on buying Mali's peanut crop at above-market prices, Britain furnished four DC-3s to get Air Mali into business, West Germany's Krupp advanced $6,000,000 in credits to permit the Mali government to buy 300 trucks, and the U.S. anted up $2,500,000, mostly in cement and gasoline. Entering enthusiastically into the competition, the Common Market nations jointly granted $2,700,000 for irrigation and medical supplies, and Red China signed a barter deal: Chinese machinery and building supplies for Mali...
...Brooke traveled with her family through Europe, met Mike in Paris and eloped with him two weeks later. "We didn't tell our families until September, by which time I was thoroughly pregnant." While Mike finished up at Yale, they lived in New Haven, "living literally on peanut butter and baked beans, while I was mother confessor to all the boys." But after four years of marriage and two children, Brooke and Mike were divorced...