Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentleman to the left with a diminishing thatch of hair and Victorian high collar is Josiah Quincy, another Harvard President resurrected for a House name...
This week, faced with a probable vote of no confidence from his 39 Deputies if he continued the talks with the Communists, Prince Souvanna Phouma broke them off. Prince Souphanouvong could only return to his thatch-hut capital in Samneua. leaving the villa and the turnip garden behind...
...tropical weed. Young (41), function-minded Architect Weese had been commissioned by the State Department, on a low budget of $300,000, to design an embassy and staff residences in hot, humid Accra, with the stipulation that his design must harmonize with the indigenous architectural tradition. But apart from thatch or corrugated iron and adobe, he found that there was no indigenous architecture, let alone any tradition, to harmonize with...
Under this benign rain, Uchinada's population jumped to more than 6,500; slate roofs replaced thatch, and radio ownership almost doubled. In such circumstances it was hard to resent the 28 Americans stationed at the firing range, particularly since they committed no rapes, imported no "pompom" girls and even cheerfully helped clear the roads when it snowed...
Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...