Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
...white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...Czechoslovakia: half the libraries and archives gutted. (In Prague a caravan of Nazi trucks carted off to Germany 700,-ooo volumes from the huge Charles University library...
Sling-Shots & Flit-Guns. Desperately, the P.G.C. examined the main highway to the north. It turned out to be an ancient caravan route which showed no signs of having been repaired since King Darius officially declared it open, some years before he lost the Battle of Marathon...
...Hamet, some 90 of his Arab followers, seven U.S. marines under Lieut. Presley O'Bannon, 40-odd cutthroat Greeks and Italians recruited in Alexandria, an Italian "chief of engineers" (who had been by turns a Capuchin monk, an Indian dervish and a soldier of fortune) and a caravan of 190 camels at $11 a camel...