Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tyrone and Micheline spend a good portion of their time necking in a grass hut when there are no parties or village dances to go to, but every few months they have to dodge a Jap patrol. It cannot be denied, however, that variety is the spice of life in the Philippines...
Aside from these buildings and a new biology building under construction, the physical plan consists of Fitton Field, with a small football stadium seating 20,000, and a large, gray quonset hut-like structure high on the hill which houses the Holy Cross Athletic Association and six constantly-crammed basketball courts. While admitting that increased facilities would be very desirable, both Father O'Brien and Athletic Director Eugene F. Flynn explain that "nobody dies and leaves us a million...
...Guamanian, Filipino and Marshallese laborers applauded lustily, the two men got carefully into the dusty automotive ruin-climbing over the front seat because the rear doors were stuck-and rattled off to a Quonset hut which a Pan American foreman had surrendered for the occasion. The general sat down on a rattan settee, the President on a wicker chair. The door closed. It stayed closed for one hour. Nobody heard what was said...
...must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...airline pilot, finally decided to return to the Air Force as a career officer. He was again made a major and sent to a base in southern Japan. There, Lou Sebille rose to command of a Mustang squadron, used to like to lounge around his squadron's Quonset hut and talk about fighting and dying. "If you have to die," he used to say, "then take some of the enemy with...