Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel's glassed-in veranda overlooking the sparkling blue Rhine below, the Germans and the Allied commissioners toasted, in German champagne, the end of one era and the start of another...
...remote Chaco, Texas-born George Lohman was slowing up a bit. His doctors had warned him about his heart and blood pressure, and had told him to stop riding. Last week, 59-year-old Ranchero Lohman was bossing his 960,000-acre cattle empire, Red Wells, from a veranda rocker...
...morning last week residents of Malvern, Ark. (pop. 5,290) were startled out of their swivel chairs and veranda rockers by the unaccustomed blaring of a sound jeep rolling down Main Street. Right behind came a caravan of 30 bright orange school buses and eight heavily loaded trucks and trailers. Posters plastered on the buses said: Watch Arkansas Climb the Ladder of Education...
...Prophet. When four years ago MacArthur stood, tieless and ramrod straight, on the veranda deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, accepting Japan's surrender from a group of uniformed and frock-coated little men, neither he nor his nation realized that...
...conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart to be true...