Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi, he stayed in a bamboo hut near the concrete ghat in which Gandhi's body was cremated. Nehru called twice, in the midst of a busy election campaign. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of India, came and told Bhave to take as much as he wanted of Prasad's land holding in Bihar. Members of the Planning Commission came and stayed for hours. Even a delegation of Communists, headed by Party Boss Ajoy Ghosh, paid a courteous visit. After eleven days, Bhave left New Delhi and has not been back to the capital since. He dislikes cities...
When the Red delegation, led by North Korea's dapper and durable Nam Il, and the U.N. delegation, led by Lieut. General William K. Harrison, sat down in the conference hut at Panmunjom, the atmosphere was cold, correct and businesslike. There were no smiles, no nods, no handshakes. There had been prior agreement that prisoners willing to go home should be repatriated after a ceasefire, that others should be placed in custody of a neutral nation pending final disposition. Beyond that, there was no progress...
...religious and patriotic mission-"to give ands to France and souls to God"-proved too strong. He was ordained, and went to minister to the Tuareg, 900 miles south of Algiers. His parish covered 1,500,000 square miles of the Sahara. His parish house was a small mud hut in Tamanrasset, 400 miles from the nearest French outpost. His daily meal was a miserable date-and-barley stew. Within a year he translated the Gospels into Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg, writing with an ink made from charcoal and camel urine...
...across the state line in a truck, reburied them, covered the grave with 20 tons of cement, and stationed an armed guard near by. Mobridge prepared to place a bust of Sitting Bull by Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski over the new grave. Grey Eagle went contentedly back to his sod hut amid an outraged clamor from North Dakota...
...rose higher & higher, Swami Saraswati Maharaj, who is a holy man and a beggar, got hungrier & hungrier. At last, in the poor Indian village of Jagraon one day last week, he bent his tired footsteps to the door of a large hut...