Word: rattan
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...Marshallese laborers applauded lustily, the two men got carefully into the dusty automotive ruin-climbing over the front seat because the rear doors were stuck-and rattled off to a Quonset hut which a Pan American foreman had surrendered for the occasion. The general sat down on a rattan settee, the President on a wicker chair. The door closed. It stayed closed for one hour. Nobody heard what was said...
...started simply enough. "Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance," Thomas Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart...
From the simple, concrete-and-stucco Bank of China headquarters in Chungking came rumblings last week of a major political upheaval. While grey-gowned clerks delicately fingered their abacuses in the cold, smoky counting rooms, directors of the bank reclined in rattan chairs, sipped tea, and ousted their fiery chairman, brilliantly able Dr. T. V. Soong. Successor: his politically potent brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung...
...India's capital last week, "Vinegar Joe'' Stilwell sat rigidly in his rattan-cane armchair, long fingers playing with his favorite cigaret holder, eyes almost shut. Curtly he replied to his critics: the Ledo Road fulfills two U.S. objectives: 1) to get at least some supplies to blockaded China; 2) to set up a situation in which Japs are killed...
...peacetime Huene was a great traveler -to Africa, Indo-China, Bali, Mexico. Until the Germans confiscated it, he had a house in Hammamet, near Tunis. Now he contents himself with a cottage at Glen Cove, Long Island, amiably decorated with batik, leopardskins and rattan furniture. He wants to do a lot more archeological photography, especially of half-obliterated ruins from the vantage point of a balloon...