Word: aloha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the right kind of clearance to a U.S. missile base, the visitor will find there, maneuvering amid weird lunar landscapes and weirder towers, blockhouses and cables, perhaps an ebullient scientist in an aloha shirt, or a fresh-faced lieutenant from M.I.T. handling millions of dollars worth of rocketry, or a gentle German in tweeds who helped Hitler build his V2, or even a space-fiction writer, intense and bespectacled, nosing about the U.S. military establishment for ideas. These are tomorrow...
...occupation taught the Sun Tribers to scorn the way of their ancestors but did not replace it with a direction they could respect. From the Americans they took only the easy externals. Their uniform is as standard as that of a geisha: the "Shintaro" crew cut and aloha sports shirts for the men, with loose-flowing Byronic shirts, zoot coats and pointed suede shoes for city wear; toreador pants for the girls with hair cut like a mop and often dyed red; and over all, an attitude of abandonment and deep to-hell-with-it cynicism...
...Senator James O. Eastland. Noting that Eastland and his Internal Security Subcommittee were westward bound and due in Honolulu soon to investigate Communist infiltration, Bridges threatened that I.L.W.U. members might leave their pineapple and sugar plantations, knock off work at the piers and meet the Subcommittee with an angry aloha...
...into the night the House of Representatives shook with spirited, if unmelodious, yodels of Aloha Oe and the Whiffenpoof Song. From Dwight Eisenhower came a final message conveying "my best wishes to Mr. Sam." Said Speaker Sam Rayburn of the Texas-born President: "I long ago told him that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel...
...goes to Hawaii. When Sheree refuses to let him live on the air base as "a sort of male camp follower," he decides to aloha the boom. One day she finds him sprawled, like a particularly depraved passage out of Somerset Maugham, in a little grass shack in the banana slums, with not much more than a pith helmet between him and the kind of girl a man likes to have under the palms. She's the cook, he explains. Next day the Mrs. moves the Mr. into Air Force quarters...