Word: stuccos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon a cross burned in front of a Jewish fraternity house on the University of Southern California campus; another illumined the house of a Los Angeles Negro. In Hollywood's cream-stucco Temple Israel, Rabbi Max Nussbaum, a Nazi refugee, gazed with dismay at the holy ark, ravaged by unknown vandals, and the swastikas and hate messages smeared on the walls of his temple...
Inside the cream stucco Imperial Hotel, beneath the propeller-blade fans, zealots and schemers argued, intrigued and speculated in more tongues than the Ganges has mouths. When they repeated to each other (as they often did) that now at last Britain's colonial policy had lumbered to the point where Whitehall really wanted to free India, hope revived. When they reflected (as they often did) that civil war had never been closer, despair reached .its depth. The issue seemed to turn on one man-Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Last week all India watched Jinnah's words and actions...
Among the dozen or more places they will visit will be a big stone-and-stucco house set in the rolling, rocky hills of New York's Dutchess County, overlooking the Hudson River valley. There the first act of the envoys will probably be the placing of flowers on a grave in the center of a hedge-boxed rose garden...
Technically, Prisoner Okamura took orders from Chungking. But he still carried on from a comfortable stucco headquarters in Nanking, equipped with a formal garden and teahouse. He drove about in a black Buick sedan. He maintained direct radio contact with his forces in the field. Meticulously uniformed, his riding boots a bit worn but smartly polished, he talked with a TIME correspondent...
...home, in a neat stucco house in San Francisco's Mission District, waited Mrs. Carolyn De Mont, with daughter Carol, 8, who might have gone along with her father except that she was abed with the measles...