Word: downpour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polite Phrases. Next morning he splashed through a downpour without raincoat to lay white gladioli and yellow chrysanthemums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then sat next to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a White House luncheon. Back in the rain, he cruised the choppy Potomac for two hours with Kennedy on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. Before leaving the U.S., Ikeda addressed the House of Representatives and flew on to New York, where, in polite phrases, he issued a clear warning: U.S. restrictions against Japanese products can hurt the Japanese economy-and that economy is vital...
White Mother. But the primitive Bamangwato, whatever the British said, persisted in recognizing Seretse as leader-especially after his homecoming was greeted by a pula, or downpour, greatest good omen in thirsty Bechuanaland. The tribesmen revered their white queen as Mihuma-Kghadi, "Mother of Us All." And surprisingly, Ruth made fast friends among Bechuanaland's 3,000 Europeans, who only a few years ago could not have conceived of condoning a black-white marriage. Seretse stayed busy looking after his herds of 25,000 cattle and his growing family (three boys and one girl). Last week, as Britain started...
...Congo, it rained all week. Flash floods washed out streets of Leopoldville's native city, where hundreds of huts slowly caved in under the ceaseless downpour. In Coquilhatville, striking civil servants who had not been paid for three months gave up their picketing in the driving rain and stayed indoors. This was the land of crisis, the subject of endless U.N. debates, but on the scene it wore a lethargic...
...acceptance as the Congo's leader. When the drenching rain began that evening, the gay crowds had scattered, and Kasavubu was enjoying himself at a homecoming banquet given in his home. Over at Patrice Lumumba's house, the Congolese guards took shelter in a garage; in the downpour, no one noticed the black limousine that slipped into Lumumba's driveway, then raced out again with its furtive passenger...
...season opened with a downpour outside London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As they emerged from separate limousines, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from...