Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...
Sweetened Water & Peas. Carver and Washington were the brain and heart of Tuskegee. What is now a $10 million campus began with a shanty schoolhouse which leaked so badly that on rainy days Booker T. Washington had to keep his umbrella up while teaching. For weeks, he and his students lived on little more than sweetened water and black peas. The Negroes of the town could only help him a little. An old woman hobbled up to him one day and gave him all she had-six eggs. "Mr. Washington," she said, "I knows what you is tryin...
...with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
TIME, Nov. 17: "In Eastern Europe the umbrella took the form of a program to liquidate non-Communist leaders in satellite states." You mean "murder"? Then why the soft word, the wiggle word, the euphemism? "Murder" is clear in meaning, one syllable and three letters more concise than this clumsy circumlocution which with ... a score or more of other obscure terms have oozed up from the quagmires of European political intrigue and diplomatic doubletalk...
...Eastern Europe the umbrella took the form of a program to liquidate non-Communist leaders in satellite states (see FOREIGN NEWS). In U.N. it took the form of an intensified defense of the Kremlin's veto. In propaganda it included threats like Molotov's (see below...