Word: hut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Paper Talks. Compiling an Indian language requires the teacher to be taught by his pupils. If he is lucky, a field worker will find at least one member of the tribe with a smattering of Spanish or Portuguese. The institute man then points to a hut, tree, rabbit, or other familiar object and asks the Indian the word for it. As he learns the Indian dialect, the linguist records the sounds on tape. Then, using basic phonetic symbols, he constructs an alphabet for the language. The process can be exasperating. One tribe of suspicious Bolivian Indians refused to cooperate...
...medical tab and the government set up a fund to cover the boys' education. The family can well use it. Inés María and the babies' father, Efrén Lubín Prieto, 38, live in a 20-ft.-sq. mud hut in a dismal slum on the shore of Lake Maracaibo. Out of Efrén Lubín's earnings of $10 a day, he supports 18 people, including ten children from his previous families and four from Inés María's first marriage. No one seemed...
...delegation (three U.S. generals, one British and one South Korean) went through the preset motions with North Korea's stony-faced delegates who practice the surly manners of their close ally and big brother, Red China. The two sides walked in from opposite ends of the Quonset hut that serves as conference room, sat down without greeting at the table placed squarely on the demarcation line. North Korea's General Chang Chong Whan launched into a vituperative speech accusing the U.S. of repeatedly violating the armistice and plotting to renew the war. U.S. General George Cloud sighed wearily...
...went for 51 hours. From the conference hut, booming loudspeakers sprayed the area with the charges and countercharges. Gradually, the sizable crowd of tourists and newsmen that had gathered outside drifted away. Communist soldiers ingratiatingly offered cigarettes and candy to South Korean visitors, but when they tried to talk propaganda, American MPs moved them along. Overhead, flocks of doves, of which Koreans are particularly fond, darted about-but even they were involved in the nasty little frontier cold war. The Communists, before releasing them from the dovecot, had carefully trained the birds to perch only on their own green-painted...
Last week, his ammunition running low, Barbot was about to muster his mob for an all-or-nothing attack on Duvalier. He and his brother Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...