Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hero." Two hours later, as a belt of pink light appeared around the edge of an umbrella-like overcast, MacWilliams spotted his first landmark-the Huai River, a glint of grey on a black ground. On the plain below, the first signs of China's civil war appeared. The orange flashes of shell explosions pocked the grey blanket of half light. Just south of Suchow's loess hills, five villages arched in a semicircle burned brightly...
...umbrella symbolizes protection for the Siamese throne. Among the King's other hereditary titles: Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb & Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother...
...merely the title of a play; it is fast becoming the right name for a whole period-the days when pounds were made of gold and fathers loomed over their children like oaks. Now that the oak is no more, a whole generation seems anxious to recall the vast, umbrella-like image of father in his prime...
Doodler. In Tokyo, during Hideo Miyamae's trial for thievery, he stole a cop's cap, his own attorney's umbrella, was caught sneaking off with the courtroom clock...
...judge by its content, the typical British reader of the weekly Spectator is a staid, orderly man who carries an umbrella on threatening days, and whose wife has the vicar to tea in the garden. He is likely to say "verb. sap." when he means "a word to the wise," and if he says, "I rather think I shall go sailing tomorrow, D.V.," everyone knows that he means "Deo volente" (God willing...