Word: watermelon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppose. His hero was Leo, king of the beasts, with vassals arranged in order of domination in their palm court. Some emblems of ferocity gave him trouble. The hero of The Hungry Lion, 1905, has a crescent of human dentures, and might be biting into a watermelon; the unhappy antelope, because of Rousseau's difficulty in drawing its head twisted at such an angle, is duckbilled; the eagle and owl, with their strips of meat, look stuffed. And yet the jungle--that lattice of leaves and fronds, each carefully turned toward the eye to display its full shape...
...best players hold abiding interest for everyone. There is endless dispute over which pitcher threw the hardest; Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson. Bob Feller, and Joe Wood are the leading candidates. Babe Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys...
...reformist military officers ousted Molina's successor, General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena. A year later Duarte became the junta President. He helped begin a sweeping land reform and the nationalization of local banks and export industries, thereby further alienating the oligarchy. Conservatives began calling Duarte a "watermelon"-Christian Democratic green on the outside, red on the inside-especially during the recent election campaign, when he declared that he favored a national "dialogue." What Duarte meant was that he would seek to create a climate in which any rebels who wanted to reject violence could return to take part...
...militias to persuade army troops to break ranks by dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight the Shi'ites, it will break apart like a watermelon dropped on the pavement." Not only did the Lebanese army perform creditably last week, but, more important, it did not split apart. For the first time in eight years, the Lebanese government had an army that it could count upon...
...down Rudd Creek Canyon, burying at least five houses, damaging 100 more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come help. They just showed...