Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried out that sovereignty could never be settled by "force" and "tonnage...
...musical trickiest: as she sings to the boy, a church choir nearby is chanting words from the Book of Common Prayer; first the soprano's voice, then the choir, fades in & out like music in a radio play. The chorus angrily follows Peter and the boy to his hut atop a cliff...
There the boy cowers in fear, while Peter rages. As they head out the cliffside door to go fishing, the boy slips and falls, and Peter rushes after him. The townspeople find the hut empty...
...same spirit that has made the Woburn jump possible has carried team members into the heights of the White Mountains during the weekends. The ski hut a Jackson, New Hampshire has housed capacity crowds this winter in search of downhall, slalom, and cross-country practice in Pinkham notch and Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington...
Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...