Word: cane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diet convened to decide Yoshida's fate, members hurled angry insults across the chamber and demonstrators showered spectators and legislators with Yoshida-must-go leaflets. Through it all, Yoshida sat impassively, twirling his silver-headed cane. When the votes came...
...cane made of bamboo...
Preparing for his debut as a song-and-dance man in a big benefit show, Sir Laurence Olivier studiously twirled a cane and practiced his footwork in a London gymnasium, where veteran musicomedy Hoofer Jack Buchanan pronounced the actor an apt but self-conscious pupil...
...days gone by," recalls clean-shaven Professor Sato, "a [Japanese] professor wore a fine mustache, carried a cane, and commuted directly from the geisha house to the classroom in a jinricksha . . . Now, after 31 years of teaching. I return home with a monthly salary of 36,150 yen [$100]. I give the envelope to my wife . . . Usually, this sort of conversation ensues...
...hope for something more than a kidney-shaped swimming pool at the end of their plane rides, quickly sense a warming magic in Haiti. Flaming poinsettias and throbbing drums can make the blood run quicker, even in a dowager from Des Moines. The heady amber rum, made from whole cane juice aged in old sherry casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming Haitian crayfish. The weather is good the year around, the scenery spectacular. Heroic history seems to hang in the air, especially...