Word: veranda
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...open the gates and let in the huge crowd. Still wearing his sash, he mixed with the milling, chattering visitors. He slapped backs, grasped hands, whisked children up in his arms to buss their cheeks. Then, unaided by any microphone, he made a brief, unscheduled speech from the veranda. "I intend to work for order, justice and the welfare of the people." he said. "We are with you, Juscelino!" somebody shouted, and the crowd thundered agreement...
...named Madame Avon; he could see clumsy girls competing in an amateur strip-tease contest or watch Seminoles wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only $1.95"), Ye Noshery,- the Nite-Cap Lounge and the Pagoda Room...
...cocked and wide, on the mysterious ways of the land - and on the politics of Prime Minister Nehru. At his New Delhi home, sacred cows browse in the flower beds ; snake charmers with their cobras, fortunetellers and holy men with begging bowls crowd the veranda, push in on him. "I feel them at my shoulder as I work," says Campbell...
...Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective immediately, any person found trespassing on the premises after dark will be given one warning to halt ... If this is not heeded, he will be shot without further notice...
...Bitter Grapes. Many of the U.S.'s top officials have come to this cool veranda, worried, harassed, urgent. Chiang's visitors emerge with no pronouncements made, no decisions taken, but with the sensation that Chiang imparts-that they are men of like mind on the issues that really matter, and that to be of like mind with the Generalissimo is a thing of importance. In a time of confused issues and uncertain men, his sureness is so intense that he diffuses an air of tranquillity...