Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customary morning swim-and was never seen again. All that was left of him were his clothes and his footprints on the beach. Eileen Ross went back to Woodford in mourning. The parishioners held a memorial service and raised ?600 to build her a bungalow, and the bishop appointed a temporary vicar for Woodford until Ross's death should be declared official, as in due time...
...Polynesian Toy." In partnership with Colleague Fritz Burns, Kaiser first bought a somewhat rundown hotel next to Waikiki beach. Within four months he had ripped down the hotel, put up in its place 24 hotel bungalows, three swimming pools, a nightclub and bar. To be sure that his new toy was authentic, he used Polynesian architecture and decor (tiki gods. Hawaiian and Oriental furnishings, yards of tapa cloth, thousands of sea shells), had a Samoan Mormon colony thatch the bungalow roofs by hand. In the village's color scheme, he put heavy emphasis on coral pink. Said Kaiser: "Pink...
...Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which set out for the Seychelles Islands, a British crown colony in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, and just south of the Equator. Here the archbishop will be confined to a small bungalow, 1,800 feet above the sea, which Lady Addis, wife of the resident British governor, describes as "a delightful place-sunny, peaceful, beautiful, but rather lonely...
...fifth house, a two-story Buenos Aires bungalow, proved the richest. In its incredible gold collection were cigarette, jewel and bonbon boxes, clocks and watches, coins of various countries, toilet sets, ashtrays, spoons and bowls, a gold-plated telephone. Downstairs was a well-stocked bar under the motto: "Someone always gets assaulted when a poor man has some fun." The basement garage held two of Perón's 16 cars of every high-priced foreign make. In various safes, vaults and drawers, the cops said they found $20 million in cash...
After a "regular wall of water" hit her bungalow and started to rip it to pieces, she and her children rushed to a more solidly built house on higher ground, where about 35 others at the camp had fled. As the water rose, the refugees retreated to the second floor, finally to the attic...