Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby hut, Miriam Awat, a Yemenite girl, spoke up for her giggling girl friends, all clad in Mother Hubbards, long tight Arab pants, and beaded headdresses fashioned like a crusader's mailed hood...
...road crossing where one road branched off toward Seoul, a fur-hatted old man stood alone. The Communists had gone that way the night before, he said, pointing toward Seoul. Behind him, the street was deserted except for a few twittering women stealing rice from a mud hut...
...other I.P.S. men set forth on the first white men's visit to a Chavante chief in his own village. After three days' steady march, they passed between a five-mile gantlet of Apoena's sentries. Finally they came to a halt before the hut where the chief lived with his three wives. Chavante braves, their bare bodies daubed with bright-hued clays, broke into a wild welcome dance. Apoena himself, in a breech clout and wooden earrings, stood before Mereiles, addressed him as "Imuman Uazassé" (Patient Father). Gravely, his men handed out gifts of bows...
...Chamonix group was close to a refuge hut at Grands-Mulets, more than halfway up, when Leader Payot untied himself from the main party to move a little ahead. A sudden gust swept him over a crevasse and buried him under 20 feet of snow. Two hours later a walkie-talkie notice of his death filtered down to his wife and two children in the valley. By radio the word came back from the French army ordering all men off the mountain...
...Mountain Mouse. By then the fog had lifted, leaving the air crystal clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain...