Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...very doubtful that the Xolos were stuffed with bananas in pre-Spanish times. The best authorities believe that the banana was introduced to this hemisphere after 1492. Yes, we had no bananas before Columbus discovered...
Married. Phil Silvers, 44, comic of stage (Top Banana, 1951-53) and TV (Sergeant Bilko); and Evelyn Patrick, 23, the sugar-coating on The $64,000 Question's commercials; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Haven, Conn...
...rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed, nine persons wounded...
...engine of his Bluebird speedboat whining at a frightening pitch, Donald Campbell streaked over Coniston Water, a banana-shaped sliver of England's Lake District, at 286 m.p.h., dropped to a modest clip on the return run, but averaged 225.63 m.p.h., to break his own world's record of 216.02 m.p.h. set last November at Lake Mead...