Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decline, and Winter Flowering. Yeats was 60 now; broad and rather dandified with the black ribbon of his spectacles "falling like a bar across his face," he could no longer be compared, as malignant George Moore had once brilliantly compared him, with an old umbrella left behind at a picnic...
This was the first press conference any American President had ever held beneath a protective umbrella of fighter planes. In the desert heat, beneath the roaring planes, General de Gaulle and General Giraud shook hands while photographers' flash bulbs popped. The President said this was a momentous moment...
Because their drawings speak an international language, Disney's party had little difficulty making itself understood. But one rainy day Musician Wolcott tried to explain to an Argentine innkeeper that he wanted to borrow an umbrella by drawing one. The innkeeper nodded, soon returned with a broiled steak and mushrooms...
...convoy was only 30 miles off New Britain, near Gasmata, when a B-24 Liberator on reconnaissance picked it up. A Flying Fortress escorted by eight long-range P-38 (Lightning) fighters flew in to intercept. They found that the convoy carried an umbrella of 14 Zeros. They shot down nine, probably got three more and damaged the other...
Bishop Tucker himself spent 24 years as a missionary in Japan, attributes his quietude to the fact that for so long he preached in Japanese only. His favorite relaxation is sea bathing, equipped with an umbrella and a book. He wades through the breakers, then floats and reads with his umbrella against the sun. The book may be Plato or Dashiell Hammett. The exercise has helped him keep fit, at 68, for more of the diplomacy that, in his four years as Episcopal Presiding Bishop, has drawn complaints neither from high churchmen on the right nor from low churchmen...