Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kwajalein an alert officer stumbled on a neat, deserted hut. On the earth floor lay a plant stalk, with a carefully burned-out message in Marshallese. The officer picked it up, tied it carefully to his pack, said impressively: "A secret message to some...
...took about an hour in the briefing hut to get all the dope. Then the chaplains came in. A Protestant guy and a Catholic guy. Each had a service at the same time in opposite corners. Just said a little prayer for us and then wished us luck. Most everybody goes to one or the other. Some went on to Confession...
...time or another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace all his own with 16 servants in green livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest in his mud hut at Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends in Delhi ("the most truly simple man I have ever known")-with Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah at his marble-lined villa in Bombay ("an Indian George Arliss, complete...
...seek the answers to such momentous and difficult questions as these, the formation of a commission was announced this week under the chairmanship of President Robert Maynard Hut chins of the University of Chicago. No one could doubt that answers were badly needed...
...mountain hut he confronted Fenton triumphantly, explained that it was all an anti-Nazi plot. Escaping Axis prisoners were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft...