Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handcuff us the first time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used up 800 cuffs on 600 men-and found there were still hundreds of the original 600 waiting in line...
When I say "all of us," that is no unpremeditated lapse into an editorial We. . . . A copy of TIME, either size, goes a route here in the Aleutians. . . . Limp and dog-eared, they probably end in some hut's trash, but that happens only after months and after all the maps and stray glamour pix have been scissored for pinups...
Last winter Mary was elevated to the rank of second subaltern, which pays her about $12 a week, before taxes. At her ack-ack battery she shares a room in a camouflaged wooden hut with another ATS officer. On duty she eats in the officers' mess. Drinks are available, but Mary seldom has one. The battery has a hockey field near the barracks. Mary plays inside forward...
...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...