Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, the clouds had billowed above Johannesburg; in the late afternoon lightning split a sky that was the color of an overripe plum, and the city's jagged skyline vanished behind a curtain of steel-bright rain. Eighteen miles away, a tornado struck the mile-square shantytown of Albertynsville, where 5,000 Negroes and half-castes lived in mud huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots...
...partner in this selection, Alicia Markova, is a lyrical performer. Although she chose a less exacting and less exciting variation, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her technique was flawless. To Les Sylphides, she brought more spirit and charm; Michel Fokine's choreography includes a series of tours en l'air which Markova handled beautifully. At one point, however, she tangled with Paula Lloyd who is a more angular, energetic dancer, and who is not particularly well suited to this genre of ballet...
...School's Out" has sounded. Replying to Winston Churchill's toast at a dinner given in his honor by the Anglo-American Pilgrim Society, NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway last week said that the massive Red army could still pluck Europe like an overripe plum. The Cold Peace boys assume that because an equilibrium between East & West is planned, it is already here. The fact is, said Ridgway, that NATO's strength in Europe is woefully below "minimum military requirements." Everybody seemed to assume that of course a SHAPE general had to scold like that...
...Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...
...While the Communists have so far failed to make any serious attempt to seize power in Iran (they may have decided that it is smarter to stay in opposition and sabotage the government instead of being saddled with government responsibility themselves), Iran is becoming a riper and more inviting plum for the Reds every week the deadlock continues. Said one Briton last week: "After all, it might be better to lose Anglo-Iranian and keep Iran...