Word: spaciousness
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Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
Milton Snavely Hershey, 86-year-old chocolate king, was strolling through spacious Hershey (Pa.) Park when he came across an unattended candy booth, promptly got behind the counter, sold 5? chocolate bars (20? worth) before the clerk returned...
...when Minister Lyttelton returned to his spacious, robin's-egg-blue office on the third floor of the Ministry of Production, he found his assistants milling around in consternation. The interpolated words, cabled to the U.S., had practically exploded in Washington. The shock was all the greater because numerous British experts in both the U.S. and Britain had slaved to gather material to make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly...
Life in X-House. In Britain today Spaatz's private life consists mainly of the four to eight hours he sleeps nightly in the spacious, big-windowed bedroom of "X-House," a comfortable, 19th-Century brick pile in a London suburb. There, as he did in Africa, he leads a kind of corporate, family existence, with his staff as family, and himself as patriarch, straw boss and referee...
...letters home from captured British and other Allied airmen pictured Stalag Luft III as one of the best prison camps in Germany. The barracks squatted in a spacious clearing among the pine woods northeast of Dresden. The prisoners had a chapel, library, playing field and garden. They lazed through a 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. day. They took walks, naps, sun baths. They had rugby and cricket matches. They attended lectures (science, languages, history, elocution). The food was heavy on soup and potatoes, but Red Cross parcels and afternoon tea kept British spirits up. Last March 22, Stalag Luft...