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Word: verandah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less. Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 2, 1975 | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...whose singularly dynamic personality eventually led to the split in the LNS; Little Stevie Wonder, a 16-year-old photographer-hanger-on who ended up dead in a car accident, strung up on heroin; Bala, Bala, another co-founder and jack-of-all-trades, now in hiding; and Verandah Porche, poet-in-residence who termed their band "refugees in winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse." And he relates their schemes with delight: freaking out Eugene McCarthy and a convention of college editors; leafleting LBJ's favorite church; roaming Washington's streets on the night of Martin Luther King...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: From the Farm Good Riddance To the Sixties | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

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