Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nassau's palm-fringed Government House a barrage of phone calls and cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...
...early dawn a detachment of Cuban soldiers surrounded a farmhouse near the sponge-fishing port of Batabanó. Under a heap of palm leaves, in slacks and sport shirt, they found quaking ex-Colonel José Pedraza, their former Chief of Staff, until recently in exile. They took him and five civilians caught with him to the military prison in ancient Cabanas Fortress across the harbor from Havana. So ended last week a revolution that never took place...
General Charles de Gaulle looked at the bright new posters and found them good. They pictured Indo-China's blue skies, palm trees and temples as a backdrop for French tanks and jungle troops. Their slogan: "Yesterday Strasbourg, tomorrow Saigon! Join the French Expeditionary Forces of the Extreme Orient...
Decorations Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 42, who quit the U.S. Senate last year to fight in Italy and France, was decorated with the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm...
...hour later the accommodating Kelly stood up. Solemnly he orated: "There is a rising tide of resentment and criticism, etc., etc." Word for word, it was the Dingell speech. No Congressional chin left a Congressional palm; the House heard it through again without recognizing it. Reporter Phillips was popeyed...