Word: settlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everything up to bazookas and heavy machine guns, passed out by the army rebels to civilians during the four-day revolt. In Algiers, police dragnets searched 10,000 apartments a night, but hundreds of ultras were missing from their homes when the police arrived. The rest of the white settler population, confined by a 9 p.m. curfew, gathered on balconies and roofs, threw rocks and vegetables at police search parties and beat pots and pans in the three-short-two-long rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise...
...rebels have offered legal assurances of protecting white settler rights, but they seem to have designs on colon farm land that would conflict with such guarantees. Says Abdul Hand Boussouf, the secretive young (32) man generally rated the single most powerful leader in the F.L.N.'s inner councils: "The big estates will be broken up. I have a cousin with several thousand acres. They will be taken away from him. We want to make Algeria a country with totally different structures...
...Pitch: Adventure. Sometimes the Campaigners enact David and Goliath, with Biblical costumes and hurtling stone; sometimes a red Indian wriggles across the sand to abduct the settler's daughter, leading up to the punch line: "Jesus always pays our ransom." The first step before each production is snaring the children. The pitch is announced as Adventure Time, and what is in effect a Sunday-school session is tricked out with puppets, magicians, quick-sketch artists and ventriloquists. The moppets' roars of approval bring the adults and teen-agers swarming around in a crowd that averages 500. After about...
...three weeks in raw November weather he steered a canoe down the Brazos, alone except for an unruly Dachshund pup and chance riverbank acquaintances. He hunted and fished sparingly, thought a good deal, stopped often to poke about in the ruins of a settler's cabin or the barely traceable midden of an Indian camp. Graves's record of the journey is an eloquent elegy. While the author makes it clear that he finds one era fascinating and the other dull, he does not make the sentimentalist's mistake of saying "that Texans were nobler...
...night's camp, and then, days later, of the quick resentment stirred by the intrusion of another human being. During the stillnesses, the narrative wanders to the old tales of what Graves calls "the good and bad and beside-the-point" of Brazos history. He tells of one settler, John Davis, who built the first floorboards in any cabin in the Palo Pinto country, and who, when his bride died in childbirth, tore up the floor to make a coffin...