Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finder, a sort of electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual, in a hut by a gangplank. But in the morning, workmen found that some 30 of the Urania's master electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands of pounds. One day last week, electric wiring...
...court-martial came to order in a British army hut outside Nairobi. The defendant: Captain Gerald Griffiths, 43, a British officer of the Durham Light Infantry charged with "disgraceful conduct" and "cruelty" towards prisoners suspected of being Mau Mau terrorists...
Smith can come back to swim the 440 for Yale in 4:47.6, faster than the Crimson has shown it can do. Captain Charley Egan holds the varsity's best time of 5:02.1, but Hawkins finished an inch behind Dartmouth's Joe Hust when Hut was clocked...
...Italian wife (Gina Lollobrigida) and four "business associates" (Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marco Tulli, Ivor Bernard). "They're desperate characters," concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost...
...stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...