Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian Spit. In a tiny hut filled with wood smoke, crowded with two cots and a rough-hewn table carrying a candle and scattered papers, ragged, tousle-haired young Churchill shook hands with me. Pribichevich, you have the biggest story of the war! In fact since my father escaped from the Boers, no one has had such a story to tell...
...noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
That afternoon I watched from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...
General Fritz Gollwitzer, a corps commander taken alive last fortnight, was brought into a peasant hut for questioning. He and his staff raised their arms in the Nazi salute. The captors stared stonily...
...flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket hut must remain within range of enemy flak and planes...