Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western world tends to think of the Arab as a falcon-eyed warrior on a white horse. That Arab is still around, but he is far less numerous than the disease-ridden wretches who lie in the hot streets, too weak, sick and purposeless to roll over into the shade...
Just outside Acapulco, on the road to Mexico City, is a little garden restaurant called El Parque Cachú. Its proprietor, a grey little man known to his neighbors as el gringo, hid his Nordic blue eyes behind dark glasses as he served beer and tacos in the shade of his cashew trees...
Young Negro girls sat in the shade, "engaged on the interminable task of trying to wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...
Less cheerful but more typical of what was happening to Britain's "last chance" empire was a recent scene in the slums of Accra, Gold Coast colony. A young native sprawled sullenly in the shade of a tin-roofed shack, cluttered with goats, baskets, buckets and children. Out of the dry dusty litter a pigeon loft reared up ten feet into the hot air. "I fight in war," said the young native. "I discharged. Money gone. No work. No go back up country." He slumped farther back in the shade of the pigeon loft. Said a white colonial official...
...millions of parents, July's polio scares in North Carolina, California and Texas (see MEDICINE) seemed more real and frightening than the Russian blockade of Berlin. Shade, cold beer, watermelon and air conditioning assumed a great seasonal significance. California fruitgrowers and shippers noted an increase in the demand for lemons...