Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responded politely when one Chief Shakes made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
Great clouds of dust rolled in with blistering heat from the Rajputana desert and hung over New Delhi this week. Outside the Viceroy's House hundreds of heavily armed British and Indian troops mopped their faces, sputtered and coughed. Inside, around a huge table in the viceregal study, India was being divided...
...bobbing little bows. Once he stumbled over the dais and almost fell headlong on the stage in his haste to retreat. Said one Czech, who saw a lot of him: "He gives you the impression that more than anywhere else in the world he would be happiest on a desert island, completely alone...
...Hopeful. Arakelian took Avak to his Palm Springs mansion, "Dream of the Desert," once owned by Barbara Hutton. Avak paid a brief visit to his new patient, placed his hands on Vaughn Arakelian's shoulders and told him: "You are going to get well in a very short time." Then the young faith healer retired to the more modest home of one of Arakelian's neighbors. He walked in the yard, went for an auto ride through town, ate cheese, vegetables and bread. He could read no English, but he ruffled interestedly through stacks of mail and telegrams...
...centennial will be the first show in the history of the Pudding to desert the traditional spring run in favor of a Christmas opening...