Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days ago government troops waded neck-deep through muddy waters to close in on Gyi's hideaway hut. The rebel leader was getting ready for dinner; the troops heard him urging his cook to hurry with a duck curry. The government men called on the rebel to surrender. Gyi answered with a blast from a U.S. carbine. When the gun battle was over, the Karen chief lay dying with bullets in his head and chest. "A drop of water," he begged of his captors. "There's no water here, sir," replied a government officer politely. A few minutes...
...Live Wire tells of some struggling Broadway actors who have clubbed together and bought a Quonset hut. There they live happily enough, until the actor brother of one of them moves in, raids everything from their wallets to their women and thoroughly poisons their existence. When LIFE does a story on the hut, the live wire lands on the cover, soon exits grandly for Hollywood...
...Marine Corps officer, Craig believes that the welfare of enlisted men comes first. On Bougainville (which rhymes, in marine parlance, with Hoganville), officers slept in foxholes if the men slept in foxholes, ate whatever rations the men ate. On postwar Guam, although the roof leaked in Craig's hut, he refused to detail carpenters to repair it until they had finished work on the enlisted men's recreation club (with six bowling alleys...
During her first night at her first missionary station, Ellen became hysterical when a python glided into her hut. But soon after, having bought some firearms and learned to use them, she became the village hunter and kept the whole area in meat, shooting game as big as hippopotamus. She knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth...
Next day Thakin Nu announced that he would be a hermit premier, living in a thatched bamboo hut on the grounds of his residence and leaving his regime of prayer and dedication only when state affairs are most demanding...