Word: bungalowed
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Once he was sure of a majority, Patil went to Desai's bungalow, sat beside him on the floor and asked him to with draw from the race. Desai finally agreed, conceding, "It would hurt some to have an election contest. It is better that I am hurt than others...
...country stirs such admiration in Arizona that five years ago Phoenix boosters formed a syndicate to finance Curtis for three years' work. Then Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. took him on, selling his better oils at $3,000 apiece. Now the bachelor artist lives in a cool wooden bungalow on a dirt road called Cattle Track, paints prolifically and has no link to any school...
...French settler votes that went almost unanimously to Mba in Libreville, his Bloc Démocratique Gabonais Party won 31 of the National Assembly's 47 seats. Immediately, a call for a general strike went up, and angry youths began gathering in Libreville's shady, bungalow-lined streets. But truckloads of paratroopers and Gabonese gendarmes roared out to take station at key points in the city. With that, the opposition threat subsided - for the time being...
Allying with fun-loving Cousin Edmond, the banking Rothschilds have also got into the tourist boom. They hold the largest single share in a new company that is erecting ski resorts in the Alps, building bungalow villages in Majorca, investigating sites for motels near the new Mont Blanc tunnel. From the U.S.'s Restaurant Associates, Cousin Elie recently bought an interest in France's largest casino, at Divonne-les-Bains. Cousin Edmond himself has poured $5,000,000 into France's plushest Alpine resort at Megève, has large shares in a European travel club...
...another of its neighbors. When India won its independence from Brit ain in 1947, so did Sikkim. But to the late Maharajah, freedom brought more problems than profit. One day in 1949, several thousand peasants swarmed around the blue and white royal palace (actually a large bungalow) demanding an elected national council and tax reforms. Tashi submitted to the experi ment in democracy for 29 days and then, feeling unable to cope with what was called "threatened disorder," asked India's Nehru for help. Nehru sent in troops and a dewan, or political officer. Ever since, India has handled...