Word: raft
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cream-colored, gold-trimmed Terrace Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel last week, 500 stockholders of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd. (Dole products) sat in wide-eyed fascination. On the platform, in addition to a raft of dark-suited officers and directors, was a group of Hawaiian islanders decked out in bright and summery island garb. All were employees of the company; they were there to explain Hawaiian Pineapple's annual report to the stockholders...
...wait-&-see but unpanicked public gave no more than passing notice to half a dozen books on the implications of atomic warfare, was more curious about Frank Scully's mess of conjecture and hearsay on Behind the Flying Saucers. A more legitimate curiosity about six men on a raft in the Pacific elevated to best-sellerdom a rousing record of adventure in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. In the midst of the new confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent...
...book which drew such hot blood from one of the stoniest critics of the day was, on the face of it, the simple account of how a boy floated down the "Father of Waters" on a raft in the middle of the last century, and of the adventures he met with on the way. The story is told in the first person, by the boy himself, in a lingo that rolls fresh and sweet off his tongue-the real true talk of Missouri a hundred years ago. Eliot calls the author's style "a new discovery in the English...
...friend, it is too true," confided the mysterious, grey-bearded hitchhiker aboard Huckleberry Finn's raft, "your eyes is lookin' at the very moment on the pore disappeared Daughin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Sixteen and Marry Antonette . . . You see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled trampled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France...
...Another pretender, who claimed identity as "the rightful 'Duke of Bridgewater' . . . torn from high estate and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft...