Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seen from the air, this go-square mi. patch looks like one sprawling bailiwick, set in the flat expanses of citrus groves, bean and pepper and tomato fields that extend southward to the swampy Everglades. Actually it is divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor...
Although Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak, British protectorate in northwest Borneo, has the power of life & death over 500,000 brown-skinned subjects, he has never been able to establish much discipline over his own family. Ever since Privateer Jamie Brooke, of Coombe Grove, England, "persuaded" the Sultan of Brunei to give him an East Indian kingdom in 1841, the Brookes have been a strong ruling dynasty. Sir Charles (grandnephew of Jamie) modestly records in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish headhunters...