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...title of Prince of the Saltees at the conclusion of the war. Also I wish it to be known that no one will be permitted to enter the Saltee Islands without a permit issued by me." Anybody caught interfering with the millions of birds or their eggs which inhabit those islands will be severely dealt with...
...gente do morro (hill folk), who inhabit the Negro slums on Rio's numerous hills and make virtually a year's living in Rio's four carnival days, clambered and skidded down from their hilltops singing a brand-new crop of carnival songs and dances. Lacking jalopies to parade in, they hung three-deep to the sides of streetcars, beating out wild rhythms on their tambourines and shouting the new tunes that would soon pulsate in all the samba palaces of Brazil. Usually the streetcar motormen got the idea and joined in, clanging out the rhythm with...
...Soviet Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are just the beginning. There are 189 races and peoples in the Soviet Union and they speak 150 languages, practice 40 religions, inhabit 74 assorted regions, territories, autonomous republics and Soviet Republics. Depending on locality, they wear reindeer fur, Moslem veils, ordinary coats and pants. They cover one-sixth of the world's land surface and they number 193 million men, women and children...
...fifth portable is established on an abandoned battlefield which has not yet been cleaned up because rain and mud makes it impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...
...never be confused with: druids (scholarly Celts who live in wooded groves); dryads (Greek and Roman maidens who live in trees); brownies (wee brown men who haunt old farmhouses); trolls (Scandinavian dwarfs who live in caves by the sea); Nereids (nymphs who live deep under the sea); kobolds (gnomes inhabiting deserted mines); leprechauns (little men who live where treasure is buried); elves (tiny spirits in human form who inhabit bizarre, unfrequented places, but which have no souls...