Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mansley (gray homburg protected by black umbrella) watched wordless as sundry crews in sweat shirts tried with damp success to pull canvas canopies over their partitions...
...unready. In most pavilions there were similar last-minute crises. But after workmen had performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies and an umbrella of 50 Belgian air force jets, the bespectacled Baudouin proclaimed in French and Flemish: "The aim of this World's Fair is to create an atmosphere of understanding and peace...
...overplayed its hand and overindulged its mouth. With elaborate unconcern, Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama predicted that the Chinese Reds would eventually "calm down" and trade with Japan anyway. And as he headed out into the rain for his annual cherryblossom-viewing party, Nobusuke Kishi ostentatiously shared his umbrella with Nationalist China's beaming Ambassador Shen Chin-ting...
Twenty-two months ago, "Banda" led a coalition of socialists to power in the land of star sapphires, tea terraces, umbrella-shaped shrines, and the world's most luxuriant greenery. In the process, he all but destroyed the island's only pro-Western party, the United National Party of Sir John Kotelawala. Today the chief opposition party is Trotskyite, and headed by a rabble-rousing double doctor (philosophy, science) of the University of London...
...mile or two in midtown Manhattan is still largely given over to antique stores and saloons, the real antiques being the saloons. In these is preserved a way of life that belongs more to a village than a metropolis. The "El" that protected this enclave like a leaky umbrella was a symbol of that way of life; its antiquary, interpreter and poet was a sometime newspaperman named John McNulty...