Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depressed over De Gaulle's political eclipse and the decline of the French empire. Delbecque volunteered for military service in Algeria. During a patrol with the famed "Black Commandos" he was struck, as if by revelation, with the solution to the Algerian War. Poking into a ramshackle hut during a search for concealed arms, he saw on the wall three photographs: one of the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, one of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one of De Gaulle. The Moslem owner of the hut, asked why he kept those particular pictures, replied: "Because...
...refuse still lie festering along Calcutta's winding "gullies," and on street after street, vendors of rotting food still hawk their fly-infested wares. In the teeming bus tees (slums), where people drink out of the same slimy ponds they wash in, the disease spreads relentlessly from hut to hut, bringing with it its agonizing retching and diarrhea. In one week alone nearly 1,000 people died-yet India's government continues to be too little and too late with help. Said one bitter physician after ten hours with his vomiting patients: "We don't mind hard...
...strained. When the slatternly mistress of the first refuge proposes to barter away Rosetta's virginity with the local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude...
...Nehru troweled mortar from a silver bowl and set the cornerstone for a gigantic, tower-topped legislative hall. The building will be the latest major edifice to get under way in the new capital of the Punjab, a site that only seven years ago was a cluster of mud hut villages on the grassy plain southwest of the Himalayas. Now one-third completed, Chandigarh (pop. 50,000) ranks as one of the century's boldest schemes for a new city...
...York, he added, is a fine place for hermits. "We are so impressed with the eremitical tendencies we see here," he said. "In our hermitage each monk lives alone in his hut, pursuing his own way or meditating in silence. But in Italy community life is very communal. An Italian who gets on a train introduces himself to his fellow passengers and states his business. The others do the same. Then follows a discussion of each one's affairs...