Word: taro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Salote of Tonga (TIME, Dec. 28), Richard MacMillan recorded his choice menu: 4,200 roasted suckling pigs, 2,100 chickens, baked taro and yams, fresh pineapple, watermelon and bananas, shellfish and coconut milk...
...rich, talented American photographer named Robert Capa." French newspapers and magazines were first impressed with the nonexistent Capa's buildup. Then they were impressed with the pictures Andrè Friedmann sold them. He did so well selling them that he changed his name to Capa, married Gerda Taro, his pretty assistant, and went off to Spain to cover the civil war. After his wife was crushed to death by a retreating Loyalist tank, Capa left Spain to photograph the war in China...
During their stay, according to Davis' theory, the ancient Polynesian voyagers learned many things from the highly civilized Peruvians: sun worship, a complex system of government by subchiefs, and such artistic techniques as making feather mantles. They learned how to grow sweet potatoes and taro. Then, with their new knowledge, they went back to their distant islands by the Kon-Tiki route. In the Lima archeological museum, Dr. Davis found many articles that reminded him of his ancestors...
Thanks largely to the efforts of two Hawaiian boys who ran from house to house alerting the residents, and to motorists and Coast Guardsmen who rescued them, no one was caught in the stream of lava. It swept over patches of taro root and through upland ranches firing houses, a church, a post office, trees and telephone poles, cutting communications. The lava piled ten feet high on the main coastal highway...