Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doghouse. In Ridgefield, N.J., Warren William Whittaker, arrested in a municipal park while knocking together a hut out of public picnic benches and tables, explained to police: "I wanted a place to go whenever my wife picks...
...Baroness-a German family who had lived there since 1932. The Wittmers were the island's upper crust: their house had cement flooring. The Conways never rose so high in the social scale, but managed to survive and even enjoy life for four years in a dirt-floored hut...
...many and powerful enemies." "Realeboah morena!" (We are glad to see you, Lord!) shouted the Basuto men, while their women hung in the background howling in wild, horselike whinnies. As four "Sons of Moshesh"-descendants of the "Basuto Moses"-stood proudly by, regal Mantsebo Seeiso, "wife of the first hut" and regent for her ten-year-old nephew chief, greeted King George. "We do not wish to be separated from you and your just Government in any manner," she said...
...most. The wretched lot of Chile's 500,000 landless campesinos invites Communism. For a day's work, the average field hand gets 35?, a large piece of hard bread, and, occasionally, a sack of beans. His home (on most farms) is a small, windowless, mud-&-thatch hut, with a dirt floor...
...people. Every week Mollie went to London, 40 miles from her 15th Century house at Haslemere in Surrey. She trotted to the Commons, the Ministries, the galleries and the concert halls, talked with shopkeepers and bombed-out housewives and Cockneys-people like herself. She wrote in a little glass hut tucked in the woods at home. Almost a literary unknown in her own country, she had done little writing for British audiences since a fairly successful first novel, Shoreless Sea, she wrote...