Word: sarongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made obeisance to his uncle (the King he once deposed), in return got back all his decorations and his yellow umbrella. Phetsarath was delighted to be home, smiled and nodded regally when his sarong-clad countrymen offered him hibiscus blossoms and accorded him the full-length, prostrate kowtow he had been accustomed to receive before...
...Burma that Benny really wowed them. In Rangoon, Benny led his band dressed in pink gaungbawng headgear, black alpaca jacket and checked sarong. The crowd (including Soviet Ambassador Alexey D. Shiborin) went wild. "Thank the Lord I've lived to hear this!" cried a frenzied spectator. Before he left, Benny made a recording of the Burmese national anthem that may be made the official version by the Burmese government. Then Benny and band took off for six solidly booked concerts in Tokyo, where he was introduced as "the great Benjamin Goodman" and showered with flowers. Said one sideman nostalgically...
Responding to Sihanouk's invitation, thousands of sarong-clad Cambodian Smiths and Mrs. Smiths thronged into the city to participate in a national congress to suggest constitutional amendment and nominate a Premier. All an adult citizen needed to do to be a "congressman" was to present a coconut, a grapefruit, or some similar token, to King Norodom Suramarit, Sihanouk's father. Some 30,000 availed themselves of the opportunity...
...Cambodian village of Svay Rolom last week, a sarong-draped man stepped from his dugout canoe to the Tonle Bassac River's bank, strode purposefully into a cabin's hushed interior and stood solemnly before Svay Rolom's mekhum, the village chief. The citizen's purpose: to vote in Cambodia's first election since the end of French colonial rule...
Wearing sweet-smelling jasmine and a gay sarong, a Burmese beauty queen welcomed Chou En-lai to Rangoon last week, on the second stage of his triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...