Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered a Riviera hotel specially reopened for him. But after only one night, Ben Youssef abruptly announced that he was moving on to Paris (wailed the maitre d'hotel: "A 24-hour season! I have never seen anything like it!"). Hastily, the French government ordered the swank Hotel Pavilion Henri IV, twelve miles outside Paris, cleared of guests arid Ben Youssef moved in with his entourage...
Serenaded by electric organ and jukebox music, more than 200,000 Viennese were guided around the U.S. pavilion by 18 pretty English-speaking hostesses, stared wide-eyed at exhibits by 77 manufacturers, e.g., Kelvinator's fully equipped kitchen, illustrating every facet of American life. Outside, visitors lined up for free trips on a Bell helicopter, which caused as much stir as a space ship...
...contrast, the Viennese showed little enthusiasm for Russia's permanent pavilion, stuffed with dowdy furs, and autos patterned after outmoded U.S. styles. Applauded Vienna's Das Kleine Volksblatt; "The Americans stole the show. They show us how we could live if we had plenty of money. But they do it in a way that makes us forget we do not have...
Inside the four-mile square of Tartar City rose the pavilion-studded Imperial City, and, inside that, the Forbidden City. Yung Lo scooped out portions of the Imperial City to make the Pool of Great Fertilizing Spume, used the excavated earth to build Coal Hill as a protection for the palace against zephyrs from evil spirits of the North. Fed by Golden Water River flowing from Jade Fountain, the pool was actually a necklace of three lakes named North, Middle and South...
...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...