Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special cops were on duty to untie traffic snarls converging on a San Fernando Valley mansion near Hollywood. The Yuletide cynosure: a rooftop Santa Claus, made of bamboo, hammering away at a wrought-iron piano garnished with a twinkly candelabra, while loudspeakers blared hi-fi recordings of the schmalziest music on the far side of Bethlehem. Beamed the spectacle's beamish mastermind, Liberace: "I just love Christmas...
Next, his police moved on the 500-odd opium dens in South Viet Nam, and in closing them down, undertook a campaign to rehabilitate some 20,000 addicts. Thousands of confiscated bamboo pipes-kindled by stacks of pornographic literature -were burned in Saigon's central marketplace, and antivice dragon dancers whirled through the streets. Madame Paula turned up working in a pastry shop...
...showed up in an open Mercedes-Benz. At the intersection of two of Calcutta's big streets, the Russians waved their straw hats, and Khrushchev cried out in their own language: "Hindi Russi bhai bhai!" (Indians, Russians, brothers, brothers!). Instantly the crowd burst forward, shattering police lines and bamboo barricades to swarm over the car. Some clutched Bulganin's coat. Others seized Khrushchev's hands and arms. As the Indians piled their weight upon the Mercedes, it broke down. With police aid, the visitors pulled themselves clear of the clustering crowd and fought their...
...Ambitions. As the newly merged Liberal-Democratic Party held its first meeting last week, the talk was that Kishi had definitely settled on his candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership...
...July 1950 Ornithologist Elliott McClure, with a mixed armory of guns and hypodermics, began tramping Japan's bamboo thickets, mud flats and rice fields and grabbing young birds (in their nests) by the throat. McClure drew blood from their jugulars, soon proved their guilt. More than 60% of such favorite songsters as dusky thrushes and skylarks teemed with the virus, later with protective antibodies. More important in the spread of epidemics: herons, plumed egrets, cattle egrets, cormorants and blue magpies. (Major remaining problem in field work: Where does the virus hibernate...