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Word: processional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The recorded radio beat of tom-toms throbbed through the city of Accra (pop. 200,000). Barelegged, toga-clad Ghanaians danced down to the beach for a mass picnic, snaked through the streets in roaring torchlight procession, cheered the unveiling of a larger-than-lifesize statue of Prime Minister Kwame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Stable Anniversary | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

One bright morning last month, a procession of elderly courtiers and politicians trooped into Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's palace to discuss "crucial matters which have vital importance for the future of the monarchy." The "matters" boiled down to one: the failure of beautiful, 25-year-old Queen Soraya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Barren Queen | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Red Square. In Moscow, Soviet newspaper Pravda reported that a traffic cop named Pavlov stopped a funeral procession for a minor violation, forced the entire cortege to turn around and follow him to the nearest police station.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Missing Gardner. All this was too much for Bung Karno. By now he had taken a fourth wife-a young, lissome divorcee named Hartini-without bothering to divorce Fatmawati, the mother of his five children. Sukarno took off for a tour of the world's capitals, shopping for new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

"In New Orleans, it was. And nobody made much money at first, especially the band men; the only musicians that made real money was the piano players; the other fellers lot o' times they'd work for a dollar a night-maybe a funeral procession would be two dollars-two...

Author: By Winston Pooh, | Title: Booze Blues | 3/4/1958 | See Source »

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