Word: hut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke that there were not enough memorabilia from Ford's brief 30 months in office to hang on four walls. That is hardly a problem. The political odyssey of the Eagle Scout from Grand Rapids is represented by full-size replicas of the Oval Office and the Quonset hut from which he ran his first, successful, campaign for Congress in 1948. Among the treasures: Ford's typed pardon of Predecessor Richard Nixon, an aide's memo suggesting that he not keep Alexander Haig as Chief of Staff, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence made...
...shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines, and her husband is powerless, "an architect lying on a bed in a mud hut, a man without a vehicle...
...lake district, the Karasiewiczes prefer to spend their 3½ weeks of vacation tending a 3,200-sq.-ft. plot of land, ten minutes away from their apartment, which they received free as factory workers. Says Krzysztof: "We can plant vegetables and flowers, and there is a small hut on the land where we can rest...
...waters of a tropical bay. At first they swim in their underwear. Later, they shuck their clothes. They are growing up. Still later, they learn to make love. For the next 20 minutes, all they do is couple, on the beach, in the mango grove, behind the bamboo hut, and everywhere. They are almost adults now. The movie end when they intentionally overdose on red berries, the Fijian equivalent of Miltown. Totally grown...
Suvorov would probably be pleased with today's Soviet military. The typical barracks is a long two-story wooden hut with beds so crammed together that they touch. The soldier's only token of privacy is a small wooden locker in which he keeps his uniform, two sets of underwear, shaving gear, a toothbrush and a few other permitted personal items, such as photos and letters. Latrines are often no more than a row of holes in the ground. Hot water is rare and usually saved for "sanitary day," when troops take their once-a-week shower. One hygienic measure...