Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December the colonial government sent out mobile vans with lecturers aboard equipped with loudspeakers, movie films, picture books, boogie-woogie records. From Accra, the capital, they beat through the bush for six weeks, covering 22,000 miles and 1,300 settlements. Usually the lecturers were welcomed with calabashes of palm wine, especially when word got around that they could forecast wedding dates for the girls. Here & there villagers greeted them with stones, for a rumor had also got around that the vans were after taxes or conscripts...
...woman cast her vote, then burst into a tribal song & dance. Politicians could not come closer than 200 yards from the ballot boxes; at that distance they set up palm-leaf booths with a carnival...
...Winter trippers enjoyed the cockfights and mule races in New Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...
Melting Pot. In West Palm Beach, Fla., Jack Jackson asked the court's permission to change his name back to Narcisco Saccomani...
...spread over the ground while burning, instead of going up in an instantaneous whoosh, as ordinary gasoline would. The first satisfactory thickener found during experiments in World War II was a mixture of aluminum naphthenate and certain fatty compounds from coconuts, hence the name "napalm" (nap from naphthenate, and palm referring to the coconuts). In Korea, napalm is carried under the wings of Air Force, Navy and Marine tactical planes, in containers of 100 or 150 gallons, and is set off (when the containers hit the ground) by white phosphorus igniters. A napalm bomb can cover up to half...