Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they called him) was-with all his $30 million-a different kind of millionaire. Born in a sod hut in Kansas, he became a world-famed geologist, helped found the famed oil-hunting Amerada Petroleum Corp., amassing his millions along the way. Seeking still greater independence, he left Amerada and in 1936 founded the consulting firm of DeGolyer & McNaughton, soon made a new name for himself as a man of integrity and accuracy in the infinitely painstaking business of oil exploration. His uncanny, top-of-the-head appraisal of oil property came to be accepted in Texas as the last...
Throughout, Fulcun pursues God as closely as he does Aide. He goes barefoot to a hostile bishop to escape excommunication. He becomes a novitiate monk. But God, like the woman, will not have him as a servitor, and he retreats at last to a ramshackle hut on the coast of Brittany to live in humble poverty. This, seemingly, is his final penance, for Aide comes to him: "She took his hand, and they went on together to the hayfield through the cool heavy...
Money speaks loudest and first, and a new center to accommodate every undergraduate organization would require both large initial expenditures and substantial maintenance costs. The Student Council is not lobbying for a quonset hut; it desires a structure to rival Massachusetts and University Halls, not to mention Burr or Lamont. The building would be imposing, and the bill would be no small part of the conspicious consumption...
...Michigan's bow-tied. New-Dealing Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams won a fifth term after a seemingly easygoing-hut decidedly breathless-campaign against his toughest competition ever: Detroit's capable Republican Mayor Albert E. Cobo, 63. Soapy benefited mightily from Michigan's split-ticket voters was even strong upstate, far from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. machines in the big cities...
...kind of latter-day Black and Tan sent by the British to frustrate a legitimate demand for self-determination. But Paddy Hale was ordered to Cyprus, where for 2½ years he lived quietly off port with his wife. One day last May three Cypriot laborers came to the hut at Nicosia airport where Corporal Hale worked. They asked for water. A few seconds after taking the glass Hale preferred them, they fired a volley of shots through the window of the hut. Soldiers who heard the shots gave chase, caught two of the Cypriots, found their revolvers...