Word: bumbershoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 66, was greeted by Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman a well-earned honor-the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath...