Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glare, the 200 families in the trailers, little more than a B-29's length away, stumbled out of their homes and back into the darkness. Then, while seven fire trucks pumped Foamite into the flames, the bombs went off, blasting a crater as big as a bungalow. Bodies were blown back across the field, the fire trucks rolled up like the tops of sardine cans, the trailers and their little picket fences were smashed, as one witness put it, "like a giant had stepped on them...
Doublecrossed. Last autumn Britain's Commonwealth Office sent a commission to Bechuanaland to investigate. Last month it invited Seretse to talk things over. He left his pregnant wife in their brand-new stucco bungalow in Serowe and came to London. What would he think, Commonwealth Relations Minister Philip Noel-Baker asked the young chief, of abdicating and coming to live in England on a comfortable allowance? Seretse declined the offer. Then for three weeks, while Britain's politicians got through an election at home, he was left to cool his heels in London. Last week Seretse was called...