Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Hut. Swiss-born Bishop Wurm has a talent for diplomacy combined with courage and administrative ability that might have taken him far in politics. The combination has come in handy: in Germany the threads of church and politics are closely intertwined, and have been for years...
...Holy Communion, states that all German Protestants can partake of the sacrament in any German Protestant church. When the constitution was finally passed after five days of heated debate, Bishop Wurm declared: "The new German Evangelical Church is not yet a mighty cathedral; it is still a modest hut. But it is a hut in which the gospel is at home, and in which all brethren of the Protestant churches may live and grow together...
Last week, in front of Jogjakarta's nameless hotel, the people no longer shouted friendly greetings; they had only glum, sullen stares for white men. Said a Dutch official: "Indonesians, like the Dutch, would rather live in a leaky sod hut of their own than in the finest foreign-built building. Will Indonesians have another building of their own? Now they are not sure. When they come to trust us to give them independence, as we promised, they will work with...
...last week, in a Quonset-hut reading room on the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, every seat was taken. It was exam week. Girls in neat sweaters & skirts (the wartime sloppy-joe style was out), men in open shirts and dungarees were giving the books a last hard look...
...padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields. Behind her now lay the ashes of her hut and strawrick. Had she saved anything? Tears ran down her soot-stained cheeks. She moaned: "All lost, all lost...