Word: tropicalism
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Over Oregon the winds lost much of their icy speed and became a lowering cold front that pushed down the Coast and across the eastern ranges. Snow startled San Francisco for the first time in five years. Over Colorado, the cold front rammed a tropic air mass. Slowly, it began to boil...
Inland from the beautiful, tropic Malabar coast, with its network of backwaters, Communists ambushed police in jungle areas and even dug trenches for battles fought with sticks and spears. In Tanjore, the densely populated, highly irrigated "garden of southern India," they scorched the fertile earth into a desert. Mobs of several thousand laborers drove away landlords and took possession of all available land. Prakasam said the Communists had an espionage system throughout the Madras Secretariat, and regularly published confidential government correspondence...
Renunciation. Europe and Asia, more interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...
...from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender, the bases...
Only twice before had Filipinos tasted the excitement of electing a President. Never before had they enjoyed the privilege of making a choice. As he went to the polls in last week's close, tropic heat, a Filipino might reasonably feel both elated and nervous...