Word: polynesian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen of the Tonga (Friendly) Islands, the smiling, sturdy (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) sovereign of some 200 tiny isles in the South Pacific, who acceded to her 1,000-year-old throne in 1918 and, through a booming banana and copra export trade, brought her 70,000 Polynesian subjects such 20th century luxuries as free education, medicare and a four-day work week; of pneumonia; in Auckland...
...texts have been compiled by 37 Vietnamese writing committees. They include 25 different language versions of a first-grade book for aboriginal Montagnards, who speak a variety of Polynesian-based languages. The books are mass-printed in Hong Kong and Manila at an average cost of 22? each...
Breeding a race horse is like baking a soufflé: you find a good recipe, follow it exactly-and heaven only knows what the result will be. Mating a mare named Geisha to a stallion named Polynesian may result in 1) a Native Dancer, who won 21 out of 22 races, or 2) a Noble Savage, who never won a race at all. August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling...
Flexed Feet. The Pacific off Southern California is relatively cold, averaging about 60°F. even in summer. A surfer may get uncomfortably chilled if he rides his board out toward the breakers in the traditional Polynesian fashion-lying prone while paddling with arms deep in the water. To a man, California surfers have adopted the kneeling position with feet flexed back, all their weight resting on the top of the shin just below the knee, the middle of the top of the foot and the top of one or more toes. After a week or two of paddling...
...Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with others in Polynesian prints and Bermuda shorts. The motto on the university gates is fitting: "Above all nations is humanity...