Word: bungalowed
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...Britain's ambassador to Russia, he used to dictate reports in the Embassy backyard under Moscow's boiling summer sun, stripped to the waist. As ambassador to China, during the heaviest Japanese bombings of Chungking, he imperturbably remained in a patched-up bungalow on the blasted north bank of the Yangtze long after most other envoys had prudently moved. His combination of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright bluntness pleases (and somewhat tickles) Britons, who regard him as one of their ablest and most diligent diplomats...
When Conservatives nominated him for President last March, Millionaire Businessman Mariano Ospina Perez moved from his Norman castle in Bogota to a modest, two-story bungalow near by. Last week he prepared to move again. His address after Aug. 7:Palacio Presidencial. Elected when two candidates split the Liberal vote,* Ospina Perez would be Colombia's first Conservative President in 16 years...
Last week they came as usual to the paper-windowed bungalow in Tokyo's Harajuku district, but no one answered their knocking. They peeked inside. There, in a blood-soaked pile of quilts and blankets, lay Nizaemon, his wife, his baby, an old housemaid, and an 11-year-old servant girl. Tossed into Nizaemon's garden was an ax, sticky with gore...
...paper-windowed bungalow in crowded Tokyo, Nizaemon's mourning relatives were already squabbling among themselves. Who was to get the vacant house...
...implore you, sink too deep, too far, into that famous English privacy. . . . Fleet the time carelessly [in] your slippers and armchair . . . go off with the girl and enjoy the loneliest possible holiday. . . . But when you come back, be a real citizen and not a hermit in a bungalow. . . . Remember that we are in history and are not merely watching it stream past. . . . I declare to you that I would rather see this whole island turned inside out and upside down every ten years, with whole cities pulled down and rebuilt as if they came out of a child...