Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Constant readers decoded it at a glance. It wasn't the second verse of the Hut-Sut Song, but the shortest way of saying that a man who had once slugged an umpire had now been arrested on a charge of picking the pockets of a sleeping citizen...
...squeeze the natives out of "Native Reserves" into the gold and diamond mines became the first order of business for all South Africa's "bosses," from Rhodes to Smuts. First a hut tax was imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form...
Last week, around a track near London where racing dogs joined him on Thursday and Saturday nights, Bert ambled along at a casual gait until he had walked an even 1,000 miles. He rested as little as possible, slept in a little hut off the track, ate crab sandwiches and tea, went wandering off his beaten path occasionally-once to see himself in a newsreel. He smashed to bits a 137-year-old world's record of 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours; his time was only one-third that...
...convict him for finding houses for vets. Cried he: "The Government will find it has a tiger by the tail." Nevertheless, the week's events had cooled him. Evicted from his own home last week, he settled with his wife and two-months-old son in a Lansdowne hut. But he called Mayor Stanley Lewis first, got an O.K. before he moved...
Meanwhile Lormeau convinced the police that he had not been anywhere near the hut at the time of the killing...