Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's cobblers: a wooden Dutch shoe for the wet lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa, all done with the same careful skill. And outside, the museum will soon set up its most ambitious project...
After the war, a grateful U.S. War Department decorated Joey with the Medal of Freedom with silver palm, the third highest award that can be given to a foreign civilian. Later the Justice Department waived immigration restrictions, gave her a temporary visa to enter the U.S. for treatment at the Carville, La. leprosarium. After TIME reported the story of her wartime exploits and her arrival at Carville (TIME, July 19, 1948), more than 4,000 readers wrote letters expressing their sympathy and interest in Joey's future...
...young Francis, who had dedicated himself to God and poverty, Clare knew at once that she had found the inspiration of her life. She appealed to him to help her leave the worldly world, as he had done. Together the two future saints concocted a holy plot. On Palm Sunday she appeared in church with her mother and sisters; the people of Assisi had never seen the fair-haired Clare so beautiful or so finely dressed. They never saw her again. Late the next night she stole from her father's palace by a back door and made...
...Palm-Olyf haar middel, Palm-Olyf haar
...hare heeldag netjies, Palm-Olyf haar middel, die familie haar