Word: stucco
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...evening of Dec. 2, some 30 German planes came low over the town, dropped their first bombs short among the white stucco buildings. Wide-eyed, white-faced men and women clawed at the ruins, and in the town's few shelters fearful crowds wailed: "Madonna, Madonna...
...paid $750 down and installed his attractive, Mexican-born wife and two small daughters in a $4,250 white-stucco house. The house is in Fullerton's restricted Sunnyside section of moderate-priced homes, one street removed from the slums where Alex Bernal was raised. The Bernals were quiet, clean, good neighbors. But they were also "non-Caucasian...
...Oakes got hopping mad at Canadian taxes, announced that he was moving to Nassau because it would tax him only 5%. There he built a glass & stucco mansion around a saltwater swimming pool. He bought the Bahamas' largest hotel and Nassau's water works, built a private airport, rebuilt the Bahamas Country Club, got himself elected to the Bahamas House of Assembly. For his contributions to St. George's Hospital in London, Oakes was made a baronet...
...Florida's stucco State Capitol last week, the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the great American roughneck, looked down on a scene that would have delighted his old frontiersman's eyes. Assembled there was the Southeastern Governors' Conference. Ostensible subject: the South's perennial freight-rate problem. Actual subject: the political rebellion seething below the Mason Dixon line...
...years ago Rubinstein bought a stucco Spanish hacienda in Hollywood from Cinemactor Pat O'Brien. There he established his blonde Polish wife and their two young children, who attend a Quaker school. As friends Rubinstein prefers writers to musicians, pals around whenever possible with Ernest Hemingway...