Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British tropical colony of Kenya, malaria and dysentery are rife; schistosomiasis, caused by parasites, is so common that the natives just don't worry about blood in the urine. They live in crowded, chimney-less huts amid smells that nauseate Europeans; food is bad and poorly cooked; 84% of the natives are undernourished...
They had to pour a new foundation, rip out and rebuild a chimney, install new floors and beams, and generally tear the place apart, outside and in. The group moved in October...
...stack, which was later served up and enjoyed by the tried, started a grease fire in the chimney above the stove. When the smoke began billowing out of the kitchen and over the bar into the main room, a customer sent in a general alarm, which brought the fire engines rushing...
...economic aspects had left it with about as much political appeal to an Italian peasant as a page from the Statistical Abstract. U.S. propaganda agencies abroad, limited in funds, were ineffectual. The U.S. spoke-when it spoke-from the other side of the Atlantic. Russia hollered right down the chimney...
...Jane Wyman set her watercolor to dry in the sun, but an unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed...