Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother was away, and Pang settled down to wait. There, on the night of last Dec. 5, violence caught up with Pang again. As the story was pieced together later by Army investigators, a white U.S. Army lieutenant and three Negro G.I.s burst into the freezing mud-and-stick hut where Pang, his sister-in-law and her two children lay huddled on straw mats. They announced that they were searching for stolen U.S. goods-blankets, canteens and canteen cups. Pang placed himself before the woman and children, and, in halting English, objected to the search...
...Christmas time he tried again. Leaving his Igorot wife behind in Bontoc, he traveled with a photographer and an experienced guerrilla to the outskirts of a small village in the Zambales foothills. There he found a family of Abenlens. All 15 of them were living in a single grass hut eight feet square...
...Trinidad. Like their parents, who had arranged the deal, the young marrieds could neither read nor write. Now they were going to the distant town of Barataria near Port-of-Spain, the capital, to start life on their own with Urmilla's dowry: a cow, a thatched hut and garden, 200 Trinidad dollars. The neighborhood kids were there to see them...
...island to work for a British publisher. Its pages are flecked with Caribbean color and sunshine, but Tiger's personal story is neither colorful nor sunny. He and Urmilla were desperately poor and abysmally ignorant. In Barataria they slept on sacking on the floor of their leaky hut, sold their milk and vegetables in the slum neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought on credit at the store of Tall Boy, the Chinaman, and occasionally beating up Urmilla...
Tiger went to work on a new road for the U.S. Army for more money than he'd ever seen before. He got started on a new brick house to replace the hut, made Ur-milla buy her first shoes and a new dress, invited his Army bosses to a rum-washed dinner. But he had taught himself to read, and now thoughts clouded his expanding horizons. What was life all about? Could he ever break away from his dreary existence? Could a colored ma~n ever get a break in a white man's world? He daydreamed...