Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verdant Jamaica is a richly productive Crown Colony in the British West Indies, but the bulk of its black inhabitants lives in poverty. The war has strangled its exports of rum and bananas, and the shipping shortage has brought the island's home economy to a new low. As 1943 began, transportation was almost at a standstill; some towns had been dark nine months because there was no oil for lamps; meat, bread, salt, rice, fish and matches were either rationed or unavailable. Economic ills weakened political or der. During a funeral procession the coffin of an unpopular public...
Last Lap. The next and final stop was Port-au-Spain, capital of hilly, verdant, sun-drenched Trinidad. There the President inspected the new U.S. naval base, had tea with Governor and Lady Bede Edmund Clifford. He also picked up his personal Chief of Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, forced to stop off at Port-au-Spain on the trip to Casablanca by one of the most untimely cases of influenza in recent history...
...hills of Vermont, the grass s verdant and the air is crisp and cool. There is a college called Bennington. Every year several hundred young ladies attend this college, which is a famous place, because it is liberal and progressive, and does things which other girls' colleges never...
...these cool, verdant hills, where the air is crisp and forests are virgin, studying with the several hundred girls in this liberal and progressive college, there recently arrived a Harvard man, a fugitive from the Dramatic Club. One of ten kept men amongst several hundred beautiful women is Robert F. Keahey...
...verdant slip off the old stock, the Prime Minister's youngest and favorite child walks like her father, talks like her father, thinks as she pleases. Thoughts...