Word: rose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through streets swarming with mosquitoes for the swearing-in of the 109 successful candidates in Nepal's first elections for M.P.s. More than half...
...anywhere along the big-time jazz belt that stretches from New York to Chicago's London House to The Sands in Las Vegas. Slowly the tide of conversation washes back through the murky rooms, slowly Jonah works his muted way through the numbers his fans want to hear-Rose Room, 76 Trombones, Too Close for Comfort, and his signature, Mack the Knife. Throughout, Jonah juggles the symbols of his success-the bagful of mutes through which he makes his trumpet whisper and wail, growl, shiver and soar...
...Construction-contract awards for dwellings, warehouses and office buildings rose 4% in May over last year to reach $3.5 billion; housing awards alone climbed 25%. Total construction gain for the first five months: 17% over last year...
Best Year. Dealer Koetser rose to take a modest bow. "I was prepared to go much higher," he admitted. "I think the value was much more than the price." Koetser was far from through for the day. In all, he bought eight paintings, two of them-an El Greco for $201,600 and a Frans Hals for $134,400-for the same client who had commissioned him to buy the Rubens. As to who the unknown collector was, Koetser would only say that he was "definitely a British collector," male, who had no other...
...Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises-Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, his older mistress, etc. In a fascinating backward look, the author (who served as Cohn's model) tells who was really who and how they lived, talked and drank in those nights before the sun rose...