Word: broom
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Some kindly psychiatrist ought to hand Faubus a broom and start him sweeping back the ocean as the tide rises...
...there is, after all, the wife of the "ugly American," a lady readers will enjoy meeting. Looking over the situation in Sarkhan, she decides that the people's backs are bent because they use short brooms. Hustling into action, she discovers a 5-ft. reed instead of a 2-ft. reed to be used for broom handles, a technological revolution for which the villagers reward her with a small shrine bearing the inscription. "In memory of the woman who unbent the backs of our people...
...Broom. Together, the Freemans and the Morleys led a life that was dramatic, intimate and unique in the annals of British monarchy. Almost annually, Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman became dutifully pregnant, suffered the usual miscarriages and infant deaths, played godmother to each other's surviving offspring. On the great day in 1702 when the newly proclaimed Queen made her first grand entrance into Parliament, she did so with Sarah Churchill as her attendant and John Churchill marching in front, carrying the great sword of state. And after Churchill's victory over the French at Blenheim, everyone knew...
Sarah did indeed reign at court as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, Keeper of the Privy Purse. Soon, Arnie's entourage swarmed with Sarah's relations, including cousin Abigail Hill, a penniless gentlewoman who had sunk to the role of "dust broom" (as Sarah put it) to a titled lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah...
Last week at a huge Baraza given in his honor, Banda watched members of the Angoni tribe perform their Liguto war dance, for two hours accepted gifts from all over Nyasaland, including a new broom to "sweep out the federation." Then, silhouetted against the sunset, he launched into a speech. "The federation," he cried, "was imposed by European settlers who fought the Colonial Office so they could have power over us, just as Europeans in the Union of South Africa have power over our unfortunate fellow Africans there." Then he announced that he would resume the practice of medicine...