Word: hut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vast Scale. The Kikuyu, according to one participant, strip naked, then hold hands in a circle around a darkened hut and chant an oath before entering it. Inside the hut they eat soil and swear to follow the oath. "The government of Kenya is under Kikuyu leadership, and this must be maintained," goes the pledge. "If any tribe tries to set itself up against the Kikuyu, we must fight them in the same way that we died fighting the British settlers. No uncircumcised leaders [for example, the Luo] will be allowed to compete with the Kikuyu. You shall not vote...
...troubled and geographically divided land by the imposition of martial law. Under fear of harsh penalties, Pakistan's other politicians, including Bhashani's chief Bengali rival, moderate Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have kept silent. Not Bhashani, who continues to receive newsmen and followers at his bamboo-walled hut. "What have I to fear?" he asked TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, as he adjusted his soiled straw skull cap and straightened the green sweater that he wore inside out. "I would welcome being hanged for my people...
Acting for a group of investors-and without Government permission-Ray started building a small island on the reefs off Elliot Key. He brought out equipment to dig fill out of the sea and, as a homestead, set up a prefabricated hut on his man-made island. When the U.S. contested his legal claim, Ray then argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country...
...Guantánamo, he evidently took the wrong road and crashed head-on into a sentry hut. "Everyone piled out," one refugee recalled, "and began running for the fence about 200 yds. away. One of our men began shooting at the guards to hold them off, and they answered the fire while we were climbing over the barbed wire, shredding our hands. We threw the children over...
Olsen often loads his incidents-and his sentences-with more detail than they can support, and a certain awkwardness results: " 'How are your wounds?' Marie Tiviroli, the golden-haired princess of Steccola, said when she awakened in the abandoned charcoal hut between Cadotto and her home." But when the material is treated simply, it embeds itself in the reader's imagination. For example, in Olsen's handling of the postman, who thought the best thing to do under the circumstances was to walk his usual route burdened with letters for the dead. Or his description...