Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easily, returned to Washington with tan and plans for the next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian political situation needed his attention. But Otto of Austria stayed...
...with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle" for India's freedom. Once she had said that she was happiest in jail, where she held her fasting husband's cup, rubbed his hands, fanned away the insects...
...knees. But their pressure on Florida's railroads, hotels and natives was getting dangerous. The railroads estimated that the 150,000-odd civilians trying for Pullman space would take three months to move unless precious extra trains were put on. Meanwhile, those-who-sacrificed-least jammed Miami and Palm Beach hotels, refusing to move out for new comers. The newcomers spilled over into private houses, used up precious gas and tires chartering cabs to nearby cities not quite so overrun...
...pigs, chickens and catches of fish, and reduced them to sucking pandanus fruit and coconut milk. Now, back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced on the pebbled floors of their spacious, thatched meetinghouses...
Electricity in such small packages (one model is no bigger than a man's palm) has heretofore been attainable only in weak, short-lived, dry-cell batteries. The new battery combines the compactness of a dry cell with the greater power of a storage battery. It also works much better than the familiar automobile-type storage battery...