Word: bamboos
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...Bamboo shades, glass doors, and a gray wall-to-wall rug are among the changes planned. Modern easy chairs and divans will replace the present furniture...
...There, an outbreak of 130 polio cases led President Arnulfo Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon...
...that hold back the Reds from all of Indo-China and Siam. Every couple of miles they passed small forts which, except for being brick, looked like something out of American frontier days. Troops had made up for the shortage of barbed wire by slanting up rows of sharpened bamboo sticks-which are quite effective until someone puts a match to them...
...Lattre's men drove into the hills north of Haiphong. A TIME correspondent accompanying the French reported: "The task force followed a narrow Viet Minh track where the jungle crowds in from all sides. The men crossed numberless ravines on thin bamboo strands. On a better road a mile to the south, a column with mules transporting French 755 provided artillery support, while the French light cruiser Duguay-Tronin also zeroed in on Viet Minh positions. On the second day, Viet Minh opened machine-gun fire, but when Moroccan troops began closing in, they fled leaving behind no dead...
After 18 years of invasion and revolution and a year of Communist domination, there are still an estimated 1,000 Protestant and 5,000 Roman Catholic foreign missionary workers in China. But now that the Communist government has rung down the Bamboo Curtain on U.S. activities in China (TIME, Jan. 8), many of the sowers must leave the seed to grow or wither without their care...