Word: palanquin
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Greatest of the Merina kings was Andrianampoinimerina ("The Prince desired by the Merina"), who ruled from 1787 until 1810. Riding in state about his kingdom in a purple-draped palanquin, he divided the country up into well-administered provinces, organized a corps of professional civil servants. His warrior son Radama I-a stern disciplinarian who would warn his soldiers, "Better to advance and risk being killed by the enemy than to retreat and be sure of being burned alive"-carried on his work. He imported British soldiers to train his army, welcomed the schools of French and British missionaries...
While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...
...stubbornness, honesty, hospitality. It was four years before he cut through ice and red tape to reach the Emperor. Yet so well did he succeed at the palace that when the British came along a few weeks later they only had to travel to the palace in Harris' palanquin to have their treaty signed in no time...
...coolies in long, black shirts, the Yale men rushed onto the stage, set up several tents, then rushed off. Several moments later, attired as Chinese bandits, viz: without shirts, they ran on again and tore down the tents. Later, they became coolies once more, bringing two lovers in a palanquin onstage; then removing them after a wedding ceremony...
...original-like a marbles match, played by dignified giants. When it was over, muttering clipped but vociferous explanations of successful rolls, bundling their complicated silk togas about small nervous bodies, the courtiers of Confucius scurrying like ungraceful peacocks, would go back through green or garden to palace or to palanquin...