Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...many people arrived for the party, including busloads of American tourists, that one old lady was prompted to remark: "Did President Eisenhower decide to come after all?" Apart from the crowds, the little cakes and flowing Schaumwein, the big three sat on a circular veranda and held an impromptu press conference. In obvious reference to recent speculation that Mikoyan had been downgraded, one correspondent said to him: "It's a very pleasant surprise to see you here, and everyone is commenting on the fact." With heavy humor, Mikoyan replied: "Were you opposed to my coming?" He spoke with...
...government." As loudspeakers carried his words outside, 2,000 Africans bearing antifederation placards began to grow restless. Finally, a black policeman snatched one of the placards, and the trouble began. It quickly became a scene out of Evelyn Waugh: below, the blacks screamed and police flailed; on the hotel veranda above, Europeans calmly went on sipping their gins and whiskies...
...lacking only the moat and drawbridge"), hired a caretaker couple full time, and made thousands of rubles by renting out porches, rooms and cottages to dachniks at excessive prices. A dacha need not be grand: a peasant's hut qualifies as a dacha when one room or a veranda is rented to a summer tourist...