Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Hut. Meanwhile, the Communist truce negotiators came scrambling back to Panmunjom to see what the U.N. had to offer in the way of guarantees. At the first meeting since Rhee liberated the anti-Communist North Koreans last month, the truce hut was stifling hot. The U.N. delegates fanned themselves with memo pads, and mopped their faces with soggy handkerchiefs; the Reds simply sat and sweated in their heavy uniforms. The proceedings were secret. The first session lasted only three minutes, but it was followed by another longer one, and by a third next day. A truce...
...stymied by an economic factor: many of the world's most densely packed peoples are so poor that they cannot afford the cheapest contraceptives. Last week the A.M.A. Journal reported that the planners' answer may have been found in ingredients ready to hand in the poorest mud hut...
...average movie plot might send the customers home, but this one goes right on to show Rugged Individualist Cooper falling in love with a native girl (charmingly played by U.S. Actress Roberta Haynes) who bears him a child out of wedlock.* Bored with light housekeeping in a grass hut, Cooper leaves the island, but returns during World War II and sees to it that his nearly grown-up daughter finds her Polynesian Mr. Right...
...give French lessons and do babysitting. The people of La Bomba accepted them as their own. Women dropped in to offer help and ask advice; children picked up French words to impress them; during the black winter nights a couple of young men, apparently loafing around the sisters' hut, kept an eye peeled for obstreperous drunks. One widow with six children spoke for the whole community when she told how she felt about the nuns: "When I see them come in to help me with the washing or cooking, I know I'm not alone any more...
...latest of the younger Italian novelists to be published in the U.S.-and the latest to be found looking at life in despair. In the last 40 pages of his novel, a Piedmontese peasant tramples his mistress and mother-in-law to death, sets fire to his hut, and hangs himself. An unmarried girl becomes pregnant, has an abortion and dies. Her half-sister turns prostitute and plays informer to both the Fascists and the partisans; she winds up in front of a machine gun and her body is burned in a brush pile...