Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxes in early Mayafter the pain of the April 15 income tax payment has partially subsided. In any event, most economists last week were in agreement with Walter Heller that "the fine mist of incipient inflation may be turning into light rain." It was time to break out the umbrella...
Organization pact, authorizing any or all of its eight members to resist aggression against the nations under its protective umbrella, including South Viet Nam. Referring to the Senate's 82-to-l consent to the treaty in 1955, Rusk gently reminded them: "All members of this distinguished committee who were then Senators voted for that treaty...
...southern Rhodesian plateau, leaving a broad ridge bisecting the country. Men began to call the broad ridge the High Veld, for it was 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level. On the High Veld was, and is, life, in a rich, tropical savanna graced with tall grass and scattered umbrella-shaped trees. Africans once proudly owned and farmed it, but a century ago they were gradually pushed down its steep sides by the white settlers...
...show much aptitude for retailing: one Rangoonese wrote his newspaper, sarcastically congratulating the government for a widely hailed increase in the production of eight items, none of which were available in the stores. Another reported being offered a lottery ticket that promised as first prize the next umbrella to become available in his local people's store...
Standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm, up to his knees in water, le grand Charles shouts: "Après le déluge...