Word: palms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a muffler round my throat, shielding myself with the palm of my hand, I call out in the courtyard: "What millennium are we celebrating here...
Havana displayed all the trappings of free election. Lampposts and palm trees blossomed with posters and pictures; fist-shaking candidates appealed nightly over TV; Cuban radios boomed their promises. The government announced that 72% of the island republic's 2,870,678 eligible voters had picked up their voting permits. And around the country the polls were provided with enclosed booths where the voter could even split his ticket, deposit it in a sealed ballot...
Following centuries-old tribal custom, the family called in a nidilniihi, a diagnostician who works by hand-trembling-but they fetched her in their own 1953 Chevrolet sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing...
...family devotion, but last year Pianist Lee and Fiddler-Manager George split up. Last week, from the $100,000 mansion with the Knabe-shaped swimming pool, Mom joined in, said it was impossible for her to watch either son's performances while they were estranged. "Lee lives in Palm Springs most of the time," sniffed Frances Liberace, "surrounded by a gang of hillbillies and freeloaders. He is too trusting. He doesn't know who his true friends...
...strange fruit have raised a vigorous progeny. His free form can today be found in Palm Springs swimming pools, advertising layouts, book design. His use of chance effects and nonrational promptings paved the way for abstract artists' use of below-the-threshold impulses. But of one thing he is certain: "If the human being loses contact with nature, if there are no longer any trees, it is the end of the world. Machines, Sputniks, I find them horrible, ridiculous. The human being has become presumptuous...