Word: lice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine." The border countries are "like lice in our clothing," said another speaker, who demanded they be "cleansed." Asked about the Red general's remarks, Nehru commented: "It would be an extremely foolish person who would make the remarks attributed to this gentleman." As for the "very large Chinese forces all over Tibet." said Nehru, India...
...wild and woolly and full of fleas/And seldom curried below the knees." Instead of skintight pants and store-boughten fumadiddle. he wore a pair of wide "hair pants." cut straight off the cow. He stank of bear grease and was usually crawling with "pants rats," as he called his lice. He slept with whores and Indian squaws, because there weren't many other women around, and whenever he got the chance, he got bear-eatin' drunk, because the rest of the time life had little to offer him but salt pork and sundown. Somebody once counted...
...prefab schoolhouse. There are screams from little brown Ara: "Miss Vottot! Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen!" Anna revels in the torrent of these different personalities, faces and colors. She thinks to herself that if she had ever borne children she would...
...obedience to family tradition; like his father before him, he was a member of the Irish Republican Army. At 16, in 1939, he traveled to England with the intention of blowing up the battleship King George V. After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Said he to the chubby would-be martyr: "Now, Guy Fawkes, lead on to the dungeons...
...father dies. The mother goes to work as a cook for a wealthy family. Not a bad life for her, but what about the boy? He spends his spare time cadging pennies by picking lice out of the rich man's hair. But then the rich man takes mother and son to his country estate, and for a while they are both very happy. Apu plays in the fields and studies to be a priest like his father-a matter that involves more folklore than book learning. Yet one day Apu comes home with a faraway look...