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Word: huts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis was at his prayers next evening at dusk when the witch doctor came to speak to the visitor. The witch doctor, Ole Loompirai, sat in a dark, dung- walled hut and drank beer with the visitor and explained the work that he did. The laibon, or witch doctor, spoke in a low, murmurous voice in Maa, sucking frequently on an oversize bottle of Tusker, a faintly smoky Kenya beer brought up in the Land Cruiser from Narok. Moses impassively translated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...spartan quarters and work exhaustingly long hours. In Khartoum, Alastair Scott-Villiers, 26, supervises the distribution of $22 million in Band Aid relief from a dingy hotel room that lacks a toilet or bath. His annual salary is about $14,000. Outside the capital, Liz Hughes, 25, shares a hut in the crumbling village of Mayo with two other Irish nurses. The threesome, who each receive $60 a month from Goal, an Irish relief group, has been helping to clean up the disease-ridden village's water supply and typically sees some 100 patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Hard Times for Foreign Aid | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...have to admit it ... I went into the experience with my Cynic Ray set to stun. I had visions of Michael Jackson teaching HAL the computer to moonwalk, Coppola making a cameo appearance as Jabba the Hut belching 3-D jelly donuts, all to the tune of "Billy Jean," with brand new Eastman-Kodak lyrics...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: KID IN A CANDYSHOP: | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

...crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when . dealing with their own kind. As two scholarly explorers approach a tribal hut, the occupants race around hiding the TV set and telephone and yelling, "Anthropologists! Anthropologists!" The Far Side is not for those who think Dagwood and Blondie stretch the limits of wackiness. Two pilots sit atop a large naked infant on a runway. Says one flyer to the control tower: "Fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All Creatures Weird and Funny | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Pizza Hut also hopes to win the fast-food race to Moscow. The PepsiCo subsidiary announced that it was in the final stages of negotiations to put as many as 100 Pizza Huts in the Soviet Union beginning in late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food: First Big Marx, Now Big Mac | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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