Word: verandas
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...Thorpe, 50, from Fort Lauderdale, was talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion from Hoboken, N.J., to Binghamton, N.Y. Hitched to the train was the Clover Colony, a perfectly restored Pullman. Thorpe had a couple of whiskey sours while watching the Delaware Water Gap recede from the car's veranda. "It was a soul-stirring sight," he says. The next year he bought the Hampton Roads, a car with two staterooms, observation room, kitchen pantry and crew's quarters. He sold it last year, but missed it so much that he bought another much like it, and now owns five...
...Reagan often uses the "shining city" line to describe America as a land of security and success. At the Democratic Convention. New York Governor Mario Cuomo bitingly remarked that a shining city may be what Reagan sees "from the veranda of his ranch" but that he fails to see despair in the slums...
...hospital in the northern province of Tete: "Money is useless here. You can't buy food that isn't there. So you see people scrabbling through litter for food, and you see people literally dropping dead in the street. People come to die on my veranda." One man told how he and his family hiked for more than a week to get to Zimbabwe from Tete. "There is nothing there," he said of his home territory. "We were walking through villages of death. In village after village, people wanted to come with us, but they were too weak...
...British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the British Embassy gardens in Paris, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal, adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
People behave in odd and unaccountable ways during fires. Such holocausts can still instill strange hilarity in some, or make even the most trained and disciplined person break down. One of our neighbors--another old-timer--served cocktails on the veranda as the fire crept over the hill. Another nearby resident, an experienced stewardess, drove while-eyed and panic-stricken down the hill in the family's only car, leaving her husband, her daughter and her horses stranded in the path of the oncoming flames...