Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago famed Medical Missionary Dr. Gordon S. (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave entered Rangoon's red-and-cream brick high court to stand trial for treason. Last week a crowd gathered to hear the verdict. Dr. Seagrave was brought into court from a comfortable U.S. Embassy bungalow, where he was allowed to stay after he became ill in Rangoon's crowded, noisy jail...
Seagrave signed the paper. Told that he could not return to the bungalow, but would have to go to jail, Seagrave muttered: "Oh Lord, I simply cannot sleep there." Up to this time Seagrave had flatly refused to consider deportation, now he was heard to say: "I think I would almost rather take exile from Burma." All of the Baptist missionaries in Burma were in Rangoon for a meeting, but only one of them was in the courtroom to hear sentence passed on their former colleague, who has operated independently of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society since...
...most serious flaw of all. A Marseille daily, La France, pointed out with horror that, by building his Radiant City on stilts, the architect had left no room for wine cellars. Said one indignant Marseillais: "Who wants to live in a temperance asylum? Give me a one-story bungalow with four walls, windows, a roofand a wine cellar...
Kastel lauded the pilot, Marvin Staddon of Maybrook, N.Y., for his handling of the careening craft. "The pilot of that plane deserves every bit of credit for the way he got us down safely," he said. The plane came to rest just before a small bungalow occupied by several persons...
...Cassidy pictures, although television was only a vague dream when he began and some of his critics thought he might just as well have been buying up freight space on the first rocket to the moon. He sold his ranch, mortgaged his automobile, moved into a little four-room bungalow in the Hollywood hills (where he still lives), sank every nickel he could beg, borrow or earn into his vast and complicated project. It took almost $350,000 in all, involved years of haggling and the signing of 1,500 separate contracts. But when television became an actuality...