Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food and genuine friendship, the monkeys would eat their bananas with relish, and then, with unerring aim and discernment, shy their skins at whatever furtive zoo keeper chanced to be lurking near by. At last, frustrated, the zoo men went to a base stratagem: they left a plate of rum-soaked food standing near, to tempt the refugees. One poor, pusillanimous monkey fell for the dodge, and as the keepers dragged him off drunk and disorderly in a sack, the other monkeys took to the trees and aired their disapproval in derisive jeers...
...especially the kind who hope for something more than a kidney-shaped swimming pool at the end of their plane rides, quickly sense a warming magic in Haiti. Flaming poinsettias and throbbing drums can make the blood run quicker, even in a dowager from Des Moines. The heady amber rum, made from whole cane juice aged in old sherry casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming Haitian crayfish. The weather is good the year around, the scenery spectacular. Heroic history seems to hang...
...Turin's palatial Hotel Principi di Piemonte, a short, stocky man in a rum pled suit analyzed Italy's current and long-range troubles. "The real problem," he said, "lies in the decadence of the ruling class - both in politics and business . . . This class no longer has the energy or the intelligence to cope with the situation." The speaker was Adriano Olivetti, boss of Italy's big Olivetti company, makers of everything from typewriters to machine tools, with a worldwide business of more than $30 million a year...
...fiesta marking its arrival began with an open-air Mass and a blessing of the machine. Then the Friends of Sanare feasted on rum and roast veal, and danced their traditional step, the tamunangue. Next day, in Sanare's old colonial plaza, they gathered and Mayor Rodriguez Diaz climbed upon the tractor...
...thought," said he, "that we were at peace, Kentucky with the mint julep and Mississippi with the planter's punch. Kentucky has never questioned Mississippi's glorious heritage as the originator of planter's punch. That drink is not without merits, either. It is made of rum, and rum is made of molasses from the sorghum cane that Mississippians revere as we Kentuckians love the billowing blue-grass." He paused. "It is," he concluded, "highly palatable in emergencies and an excellent mosquito repellent at all times...