Word: huts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, soon after dawn, civil guards crept up on a straw-roofed hut. Inside were Ba Cut and six of his top lieutenants. Ba Cut, his hair now grown down to his waist, surrendered meekly. With the Binh Xuyen destroyed, the Cao Daoists divided, and Hoa Hao's Ba Cut captured, Premier Diem had eliminated the last of the rebellious warlords in his young republic...
...Bunt, greeting him on the beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises to be one of the most interesting days of my life...
...Bokouélé, the ancient Kani Eyobélé was dying, so he called his sons around him; the instructions he gave them were minute and terrifying. As soon as he died a calabash of palm wine was to be broken in the yard of his hut. Then in Eyobélé's open grave a white cockerel was to be beheaded and released. If the headless, fluttering bird flew out of the grave it was well: the dead man was on his way to the upper regions. But if the bird stayed in the grave...
...Then, as the women gathered around the dead man for the nightlong watch, a thunderstorm loomed over the village; and even before the cockerel could be beheaded, Eyobélé's prophecy was carried out. A bolt of lightning crashed into Eyobélé's hut, and a moment later nine women lay dead around the bier. Last week Bokouélé was a ghost village, in which Father Benoit Gassongo, the Roman Catholic priest and teacher, stirred among the vacant seats of the mission school and said his Mass in the empty chapel...
...question that has been dangling ever since Jagan's removal from office and the suspension of the colony's constitution: When will self-government be reestablished? The likely answer: when the flow of development funds has put an end to the ragged poverty, the mud-hut living standards and widespread unemployment that combined to bring Communist Jagan to power in the first place...