Word: palme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he had decked out his Polynesian playground with a profusion of palm trees and exotic plants, Kaiser was ready to play. But something was missing. He needed a beach of his own. To get the coral for a beach base, Kaiser dredged a lagoon (wangling the necessary permission, including an act of Congress). In the center of the lagoon, he placed a tiny island. When he surfaced off his beach with 30,000 cu. yds. of sand, Kaiser owned the widest beach in Waikiki, named it after Duke Kahanamoku, onetime Hawaiian swimming champ...
...house a radio and color TV station, a movie sound stage, a theater in the round, a combination ice rink and supper club, an 1,800-seat auditorium. When asked how he is going to make the aluminum dome look Polynesian, Kaiser replied confidently: "I'll stick living palm trees through the roof...
About that opening speech: I counted at least threescore cliches among those gems of Clem's. I can only say that it will be a black day for these United States should they fall behind the other nations of the civilized world in the production of rockbound, palm-fringed, seagirt cliches. I point with pride to Governor Clement, whose speech was worthy of Cicero-Cicero...
...Every morning a long file of black soldiers in white pajamas used to approach the laboratory down the avenue of palm-trees. Each bore before him a bedpan decently shrouded in a 'cloth, distinctive.' They were the inmates of the dysentery ward bearing their daily offerings...
Breaking the 430-mile journey from the port of Buenaventura to Bogotá, six government trucks braked to a stop one afternoon last week beside the old Pacific railroad station in Cali, the palm-shaded heart city of the rich Cauca River Valley. In a district jammed with factories, warehouses and slums, the drivers bedded down for the night with their cargo-more than 30 tons of high explosives. At 1:07 a.m., like 30 blockbusters, the cargo blew up, in a tower of red flame and seething of black smoke...