Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised the island's room total to 2,300. But with the U.S. over its recession jitters and in a vacation mood, the total was not enough. The Caribe Hilton rented out its solarium, conference room and doctor's office. No-vacancy signs were up in the Virgin Islands, now linked to Puerto Rico by a 40-passenger hydrofoil speedboat. Barbados, easternmost of the Windward chain, bustled; Trinidad impatiently awaited the completion of a $9,500,000 Hilton hotel...
...tiny Ecuador (pop. 4,000,000) is a striking exception. It has an annual trade surplus, a currency more solid than the dollar, an economy growing by an average of 9% each year. Last week Conservative President Camilo Ponce Enriquez. 47, dedicated 13 more miles of blacktop road through virgin farmland, rushed ancient Quito's $10 million face lifting (a jet airport, a new congressional palace), timed for the eleventh meeting of the Pan American Union next year. "Our people are working,'' says Ponce. "Our soil is flowering...
...thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers from the highlands joined in and got 124 acres of government land free. Now Ecuador is the world's biggest banana...
...Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunnar Bjornstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise in his mind with regard to either. It is between these two pure extremes that the knight, Max von Sydow, agonizes, the pain of his struggle exacerbated by the other...
...doctor, for fear either of reprisal by medical associations or of loss of their own malpractice insurance. He got a measure of revenge in a 1949 case in which he appeared for an aging woman who charged that a specialist had promised to give her "the breasts of a virgin." The doctor, complained the plaintiff, had mutilated her instead. The judge permitted the plaintiff to disrobe to the waist before the jury in the judge's chambers. "She stood there," says Belli, "the tears dripping down. I figured later it was worth $30,000 a tear...