Word: huts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airport, the story continued, by Wolfram Bossert and driven in a rickety Volkswagen down a potholed dirt road into a virtual slum. "My father's house," Rolf remembered, "was nothing more than a wooden hut." Inside, it was meanly furnished with a bed, a table, a few chairs and a closet. As he entered the house, Rolf recalled, "my father trembled with excitement. I saw that he had tears in his eyes...
...have provided his protection; after all, Mengele hunters "looked for him in a white villa on the sea, in the back of a Mercedes, behind bodyguards and guarded by German shepherds." They did not guess, ventured Rolf, that the runaway Nazi might be living in penury in a ramshackle hut. Thinking of that sorry plight, and of the jottings about children and poodles that constituted the lion's share of the released documents, Rolf said he deplored the methods and madness of the doctor, but could not condemn him. "I don't support my father," he said...
...heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal No. 9, a cyclone warning calling for immediate evacuation, had been announced on the radio. It was news to Yakub...
...carrousel notion was California's Muller, a scientist obsessed by periodicity. If a familiar cosmic mechanism could not account for the cyclic nature of extinctions, he decided, something completely different would have to do. During Christmas break in 1983, Muller and fellow Astronomers Marc Davis of Berkeley and Piet Hut of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were brainstorming about stars and periodicity, when Muller noted that more than half the stars in the galaxy are thought to be binaries (pairs of stars that orbit a common center of gravity). Suppose the sun has a companion, he mused...