Word: stuccos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters scribbled quietly and intently. They were jammed into a small room in the grey stucco auditorium at Santa Cruz, Calif., and Ohio's Republican Senator Robert A. Taft was not a man to raise his voice. Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table. But for a fraction of a second, every man in the room looked up and stared as if the Senator had just pulled out his penknife, opened it, and absently swallowed...
Urging the need to uphold the "principle of authority," the Government closed the school. But 900 students barricaded themselves in the grey stucco building, stayed there even when the Government cut off light, food, water. Outside, armed police, on horse and afoot, laid siege...
...retirement ceremonies were as spare and simple as the General himself. He made a short farevell speech, attended a reception, held a housewarming at the two-story, white stucco Wainwright house in San Antonio (named "Fiddler's Green," after the mythical heaven to which the souls of all cavalrymen are supposed to go).* Then it was all over. "Skinny" Wainwright was a civilian...
Erich's father was a salesman who had built himself a little stucco house in Teltow, a suburb for Berliners of the lower middle class. Soon after the war was ended, Russian officers came to the house and took Erich's father away...
...Capri. At Capri, he found the kind of prewar bargain which expatriates used to brag about. His hotel suite (large bedroom, bathroom, private balcony) looked out over pink stucco villas toward the island of Ischia. The room and meals cost 1,400 lire ($1.75 black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta...