Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were still there. The necessity of keeping painters working indoors during the winter months was the reason, they explained. There was little point in taking the last exam. So he left a forwarding address, and departed for Mexico to get his education among the natives in an unpainted adobe hut...
Suddenly both were thrown from their bikes by an explosion in the ditch alongside the road. At the same moment, a Tommy gun chattered from a nearby hut. As the Vietnamese soldiers returned the fire, most of the cyclists, including Champ Soun, dived for the ditches, but Policeman Liem jumped back on his bike and pedaled hell-for-leather toward the finish. The only man to finish the lap, and thus win a prize of 15,000 piasters ($428), he got down from his bike and fainted dead away. "I'm no hero," he told the cheering Vietnamese fans...
...white-haired lawyer from Wall Street sat in a straw hut at Panmunjom last week, while Chinese and North Korean Communists on the other side of the table paid him their respects. "Warmonger! Liar! Rogue! Slicker!" they cried. "You are bloody-handed, deceitful, stupid. We must warn you to behave!" The American leaned back and laughed...
Then he got up and stalked out of the hut, leaving the Communists open-mouthed and stunned. Thus did U.S. Special Ambassador Arthur Hobson Dean call off the deadlocked preliminaries for a Korean peace conference...
Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want, so long as he is black." Griffiths told the court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five...