Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doublecrossed. Last autumn Britain's Commonwealth Office sent a commission to Bechuanaland to investigate. Last month it invited Seretse to talk things over. He left his pregnant wife in their brand-new stucco bungalow in Serowe and came to London. What would he think, Commonwealth Relations Minister Philip Noel-Baker asked the young chief, of abdicating and coming to live in England on a comfortable allowance? Seretse declined the offer. Then for three weeks, while Britain's politicians got through an election at home, he was left to cool his heels in London. Last week Seretse was called...
...more than two years, no white Charlestonian had called socially at the gracious, grey stucco home of Federal Judge J. Waties Waring and his Yankee wife. First, the judge's lifelong friends in Charleston's proud and starchy society had cut him cold for divorcing one of their own to marry a twice-divorced woman from Connecticut. Then the rest of white Charleston had drawn itself aloof when he ruled that Negroes were entitled to vote in South Carolina's primary elections (TIME, Aug. 23, 1948). Over the months there were loud whispers that the Warings were...
Ulate resumed the presidential custom of walking to the San José post office every day to get his mail. He also walked to work. Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...
...physicians is in their methods. They carry few pills in their black bags, and rarely dispense medicine. (Their patients give the local drugstore $12,000 in prescription business a year.) In two years Dr. Reeves has never delivered a baby at home, nor performed surgery outside the little yellow stucco hospital on the edge of town...