Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kesa's first-class government travel allowance for himself and put the chief into a crowded third-class compartment. In New Delhi the secretary rented two rooms in the chief's name, moved into one room himself, sublet the other, and made Kesa sleep on the veranda. He also took all of Kesa's money...
Back from the Veranda. The secretary led Kesa to Parliament, and told him where to put his thumb mark on official papers in lieu of his signature, since Kesa could not write. Otherwise, he left Kesa alone at his desk, to make of the proceedings what he could. Kesa did not understand a word of what was spoken, but as the session wore on, he began to understand something of parliamentary principle. He saw that even Prime Minister Nehru was the servant of Parliament, and could be shouted down and booed. He began to realize that Representative Kesa...
Emboldened by this great discovery, Kesa revolted against the secretary: he wanted his money, he wanted to get off the veranda, and he wanted to play a part in Parliament. But the secretary merely cut off Kesa's food allowance, and left him to fend for himself, hungry, broke and unable to speak to anyone in the great, strange town. That was why Kesa, the brave hunter, had wept...
Just after midnight of the third day, the vigil on Astor Street ended. The convention had spoken, and the nominee strode before the microphones on grandmother Bowen's veranda. His first words were for the reporters and photographers: "First let me say how much I regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline...
...more pictures, we would know we were slipping." Host Garner, 83, smiled again. Yukio Ozaki, 93, onetime mayor of Tokyo, who sent the cherry trees to Washington-as a good will gesture some 40 years ago, surprised his doctors by getting up from his "deathbed" to sit on his veranda and write a little poem in memory of the gift. The poem...