1.   And there, under the swaying palms, four young girls swathed in bath towels joined in yet another rite of passage.

2.   A swaying palm tree.

3.   But despite its travel-brochure image of swaying palms and lush golf courses, some areas are anything but an oasis.

4.   Swaying palms provide much of the shade.

5.   The deaths opened a new chapter in the ongoing Palm Beach story of wealth and scandal under the swaying palms.

6.   The war had not yet heated up and Cu Chi still presented a beautiful landscape of thatch-roof houses, rice paddies and swaying palms.

7.   And there stood Gizarek, ragged and unshaven amid the swaying palm trees and daintily painted holiday bungalows of the French Riviera.

8.   Down the broad boulevards, where the sighs of swaying palms once were heard, traffic blares.

9.   Other adaptations to the local scene include greeting cards showing Santa on the roof of a shophouse in Chinatown or resting under a swaying palm tree.

10.   Three climbers scaled the swaying palms under blue skies here and then used ropes suspended high above busy Wilshire Boulevard to hoist the banners.