Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graham has a literary touch as deft as a surgeon's. "To call an obstetrician to an obstructed labor in a modern maternity hospital may seem very different from calling in a witch-doctor to primeval hut," he says. "The words and the rites . . . have become more specialized, as has the method of payment. The occasion, however, has not altered at all and for that matter the obstetrician has not much more idea than the shaman why that particular child should try to be born sideways...
There was need for haste. Fadayan Islam was acting ominously. Day before, its young (27), wild-eyed leader, Seyed Safavi, secretly met a United Pressman in a mud hut in Teheran's outskirts, there proudly announced that he personally was responsible for the assassination of Premier Razmara (TIME, March 19). Asked, "Has Your Eminence other persons on your list?" Safavi replied: "There are quite a few who must be pushed down the incline to hell." Added Safavi: "There are 5,000 people who would immediately give their lives at my command...
...Twas Brillig (Mindy Carson; Victor). Lewis Carroll's genuine jabberwocky tricked up to sound like such moderns as Mairzy Doats and the Hut Sut Song...
Little opposition has appeared on the surface so far, and the administration proposals are not yet official, hut several professors were certain that "others will want to fight any large expansion of religion in the College...
Last Saturday the two survivors heard a tank motor, crawled outside the hut and waved at a U.S. tank crew. "Have you got any room?" they yelled...