Word: huts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What I want," Janes told TIME Correspondent William P. Gray in the bare, inhospitable, sandbagged hut he shares with 18 other marines, "is an explanation of what I'm doing here. Then I'll sleep better. . . . We're buttering somebody's bread, riding these coal trains. Why don't these Chinese National troops run their railroads? They've gotta be protected wherever they go. If anybody gives me a good explanation why I'm here, I'll keep still...
...Little Klaus and many others are here in naturalized form. But the background of these Russian stories is the vast steppes, the dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father death." These stories throb with a violence that makes the atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame...
Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...
Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...
...letter disclosed the breaking of the code-"Hut it was of the highest importance, said Marshall, that the Japanese be kept from realizing it." Possession of the code secret gave the U.S. an enormous advantage, saved many U.S. lives...