Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 26. they found a South Korean who agreed, for $40, to guide them over the mountains. He took the two officers to his hut to prepare for the trip. As it turned out, the Korean had other plans. He sent his brother for the North Korean troops, and the following night Dean and Tabor, hiding in the hut, heard the Communists approaching. When the Reds called out in English, "Come out, we will not kill you," Dean and the lieutenant came out shooting...
...Briton in khaki shorts stood nearby in a thatched mud hut that served as a polling station. The Shilluk voters hesitated, fingering the red-painted beads of flesh that stand out on their foreheads, peering at a row of empty gasoline cans-the ballot boxes. Asked a Shilluk: "Into which can do we drop the magic paper?" Said the white man: "You must choose...
Last week Paula laid away his formal clothes in moth balls. The white-haired old dynamo had run down; he was going back to the land, to the pioneer moshave of Sde Boker in the Negeb, Israel's desert frontier, to live in a three-room wooden hut and resume his study of classical and Renaissance philosophy. Paula was not too enthusiastic about renouncing city life, but planned to resume her old occupation and become the colony's nurse...
...time, he said, came when the Communists questioned him for grueling periods-once for 68 hours, then 44 hours and then ten hours-trying to get him to reveal the defense plans for Japan. After one session, as he lay sleepless and freezing on the mud floor of his hut, he resolved to kill himself...
Last summer three plays were filling London theatres nightly. One, The Little Hut, was brought to the United States last month after a three year run in Britain. It lasted about a week o Broadway. Another of the trio, T.S. Eliot's The Confidential Clerk, is being readied for a New York premiere this season, possibly to redeem British drama in the eyes of this country. By the time Eliot's verse play arrives, however, it may have a task of double redemption. The third London hit, Escapade, is now on display in Boston and it is as glibly boring...