Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calcutta, where thrifty Bengalis ran wild in 1953 over a ⅓cent rise in streetcar fares, mobs rioted around the post offices when it was discovered that the price of stamps would be rounded off in favor of the government. In industrial Kanpur, bus service was tied up for hours when bus drivers discovered they could not drive and argue about fares at the same time. Mothers fretted that the new coins were too easy for kids to swallow. Even the beggars complained formally that the changeover would cost them profits since passers-by now tossed them a mere naya...
Were there any objections? Paper ballots were passed out forthwith to the politicians. Said Sukarno when the vote was tallied: "I am very happy and moved that a majority would accept appointment to an Emergency Cabinet post." Now he could get on with his promised introduction of what he calls "guided democracy," instead of the Western-style parliamentary democracy which had. admittedly, failed to govern the country effectively...
...strongman's Venezuelan command post is a comfortable apartment on the eighth floor of an apartment building in a Caracas residential neighborhood. Protected from unwanted visitors by Venezuelan Seguridad National guards in the lobby downstairs and on the street outside, Perón works on comeback plans twelve hours a day, openly confers with visiting plotters. In his off moments, he strolls through a nearby park or motors through the countryside with his roommates, a blonde actress named Isabelita Martinez, a black poodle named Canela, and a white poodle named Picha. A frequent guest is Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, Venezuelan...
...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
...everybody has the stuff to be an art collector; it takes money and taste as well as the urge to collect. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had all three by the time he was a senior at Harvard. Grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, son of its second editor-publisher, he had been surrounded by art at home from childhood, and had sharpened his taste in four years as a fine arts major. In 1936 Joe Pulitzer made his first leap as a collector, bought Amedeo Modigliani's Elvira Resting at a Table (opposite). For the next...