Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This one led to a bright room with coat racks down the middle and a private leaning against them. "Take off everything but shoes, socks, and shorts," said the private. "Place all your valuables in the small cloth bag." He pointed to a cardboard carton of small cloth bags. "Make sure you do not misplace either the papers or your valuables." We undressed, picked up our bags, and lined up to get weighed...
...Army Base runs its physicals through a maze of zig-zag cloth screens, numbered into stations. Station Number One included a chair, a plain table, and a doctor who held a slit lamp and a tongue depressor. "Open your mouth," said the doctor. "Head up. Turn it left. Turn it right. Now let me look at those cars." He clicked on the light. "Ah, very interesting." The doctor checked off more spaces on the mimeographed sheet and smiled. "Station Two," he said...
Station Two was an eye test; Station Three checked hearts and blood pressures. We were through them in five minutes, laughing a little now at each other with our baggy shorts and cloth bags. Station Four screened a dentist's chair and a strong light. Its doctor was wielding another tongue 'depressor and checking off teeth on the sheet. There was a long line waiting in front of the chair; the doctor was sweating by the time I got to it. He looked in my mouth. "Take that out." I have a wire brace fixed on my lower teeth...
Station Five was marked "Urinalysis." There was a short man there, sitting behind a small table and grinning pleasantly; opposite him, on a long bench, sat a group of men fingering their cloth bags and staring uncomfortably across the room. An empty jar rested on the table, and the short man occasionally looked up and tapped it with a glass...
...peacemaking expedition near the Chavantes' Serra do Roncador (Snoring Mountain). Ambushed, he whipped his gift-laden burro off into the jungle and escaped while the Indians chased and killed the burro. Manfully turning the other deep-tanned cheek, Mereiles kept right on wooing the Chavantes with gifts of cloth and aluminum pots dropped strategically along their forest trails. Eventually, tribesmen began slipping across to the white man's side of the River of Deaths, asking for gifts and gulping down all the food in sight. One day Chief Apoena himself put in an appearance and, before leaving, promised...