Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, collapsible military maintenance shelter, which resembles a Quonset hut, made of canvas on a magnesium-alloy frame. It weighs slightly more than one ton (onefourth as much as other structures of the same size and strength...
...people of Chief Luka of Lari had banded together in an African Home Guard to keep out the Mau Mau. They were asleep in their huts as the silent Mau Mau warriors moved in for the kill. The first wave of attackers barred each hut door, the next, carrying torches, set fire to the grass roofs. Then, as the terrified villagers came stumbling out of the blaze, the executioners went to work with long sharp knives...
...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
...nine days, sophisticates in New Delhi's clubs and coffee houses argued over whether Narayan was a fake or not. There was probably a secret tunnel leading into the tomb, said some. But in a hut near the pit, Narayan's sole disciple, faithful Wamana Acharya, sat praying day after day. Last week, as the tenth day of the ordeal dawned, sightseers from all over New Delhi streamed to the burying place afoot and on camelback to watch Narayan's disinterment. Cymbals and harmoniums clanged and wheezed, hucksters did a land-office business...
Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was born at the jungle's edge in the mud-hut village of Nkroful, where his father, a Twi (pronounced Twee) tribesman, hammered out gold ornaments for local woodcutters. A Catholic mission taught him the three Rs, and the Fathers sent him up to the Gold Coast's Achimota College. Achi-mota crackles with black & white brains (its crest is a piano keyboard, with black & white keys playing together in harmony). Nkrumah graduated (in 1931) with an itch to teach...