Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Central Park is used and enjoyed each year by some 30 million people-dowagers walking their dogs, prizefighters doing their morning road work, oldsters drowsing in the sun, people of all ages making love in the shade, kids playing cowboys and Indians, nursemaids plying the baby-carriage trade. It is a huge, beautiful-backyard for Manhattan's harried hive-dwellers...
Guns Next to Peashooters. In Abadan, meanwhile, the remaining 2,200 British executives and technicians stewed at 125° F. in the shade and waited hopelessly for the break they knew would not come. One moment the Iranians wanted them to stay and work for the new Iranian National Oil Co., the next buffeted them savagely; looters boldly snatched packing cases while the police did nothing; Anglo-Iranian helplessly reported that $28,000 worth of refinery machine parts were being stolen every week...
...friendly assembly of United Nations delegates met under the shade of apple trees in a Burlington, Vt. garden where Chief U.S. Delegate Warren R. Austin and his wife Mildred topped off the proceedings by cutting their golden wedding anniversary cake. Among the anniversary gifts: a gold thimble studded with diamonds for Mrs. Austin, a pair of gold picture frames from the White House...
Gold-Rush Days. "Cump" Sherman's "nervous-sanguine temperament" showed itself early in his Ohio boyhood. He so hated his red hair that he tried to dye it black, and succeeded only in producing an unhealthy shade of green. At 16, looking to his Eastern relatives like "an untamed animal just caught in the Far West," Sherman entered West Point, and at 20 he was graduated, "standing highest in engineering, geology, rhetoric, mental philosophy, and demerits...
Iran's frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq last week left the Parliament building, where he had been holed up for 20 days in fear of assassins, and moved back to his home. The Iranian situation, for weeks as black as oil, was getting just a shade brighter...