Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully on a destroyer, slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia show. Everywhere he went he was troubled by his name, which fitted him like an outsize hat. "Say, are there three of you guys from TIME...
Inside the crowded inner circle, ringed by huts, Anei Kur saw two comely Nubian maidens, his brides. Priests led him through the chanting throng to one of four royal huts before which stood the sacred stool, Kwom. On the stool stood the image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...
...first question heard in our quarters after we knock off work is, "What's the movie tonight?"and usually,the reply is: "It stinks." If we don't go to the movies, we just sit around and go "hut-crazy," so we really appreciated TIME giving us a swell plug...
Everette Lee De Golyer, 57, of Dallas, is perhaps the world's greatest oil geologist. Born in a Kansas homesteader's sod hut, he became the founder of a U.S. crude oil producer (Amerada Corp.), a director of Dallas' plush First National Bank, and the man whom the industry reverently calls "the father of geophysical exploration in the U.S." This man was the man whom Harold Ickes recently sent to survey U.S. oil properties in the Middle East, and who now attempted to explain to Americans why the U.S. is dabbling in Middle East...
...neighboring island the officer found a group of natives, led by a grizzled chief. The old man read the message, pointed to a teen-age pair nearby, explained: "It's from that fellow to the girl. It says: 'I've built a new hut. Will you come and sleep with...