Word: taro
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...Chief staple: poi, a fermented paste made from taro root. "And an unseductive mixture it is," wrote Mark Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...
...veterinarian and his seven-man soldier escort had been murdered in Senguio; bands of armed men, threatening violence to cattle-shooters, roamed the states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Zacatecas. Only last week, sanitation workers who had come to disinfect a village in the state of Querètaro were driven out with cries of: "You've killed our cattle, now you can't kill our children...
When Americans returned to Kusaie last year they found the natives again impoverished and racked by disease. The Navy set up dispensaries, established markets for crops (taro, copra, sweet potatoes) and native handiwork. Last week King John of Kusaie solemnly inscribed in his native language a petition to the President of the U.S. It said: "We earnestly desire that Kusaie be made a permanent possession, and we request that our people shall be kept forever under the protection of the American flag...
They had been philosophically submissive during two years of Jap rule, had suffered nothing worse than occasional hunger when the conqueror took their babai (taro), pigs, chickens and catches of fish, and reduced them to sucking pandanus fruit and coconut milk. Now, back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced...
High spot of the film is the result of a party at which a U.S. newspaperwoman suggests that to amuse the guests Taro should have his men bayonet a baby or two. Insulted, Taro picks a quarrel with his old U.S. friend O'Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes...