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Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. "Good morning, Queen," said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved...
...only 34, a little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing...
...hear tell you want a girl," she said fiercely. "You take me." Author Rawlings explained that the girl was too old to learn her ways. Said 'Geechee: "If I don't do to suit you, you can cut my throat." At dawn 'Geechee began to scrub down the house-walls, floors and ceilings. She used up six cans of potash. She wore a hole in the kitchen floor pursuing a stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential. She explained her blind...
...escarpment is empty. It is a plateau covered with scattered scrub and occasional boulders, and here & there it is cut by dry streambeds called wadies. The sun has just come up, and each stone and bush throws a long shadow...
...several days unprecedented numbers of trucks had been moving up by night, many of them new. Complete regimental units had streamed up in far greater force than usual. By day, vehicles were kept unusually well camouflaged with netting and desert scrub; by night their lights were more scrupulously dimmed than usual; at all times they were more carefully and widely spaced in convoys. Roads had been given new shoulders, officers new maps, airfields new fuel caches...