Word: shacked
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...making the welkin ring with the help of highly amplified announcements by Humorist Art Buchwald, in full ringmaster's regalia. Seven of Ethel's eleven offspring were on hand, and so was Uncle Ted-Ted Kennedy, the painter, that is. Next day, his painting Red Shack brought the high bid of $3,000 at an art auction in Boston for the benefit of the Kennedy Library Fund (seascapes by his sisters, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith, fetched only $1,500 and $900 respectively). The purchaser was Miami Millionaire Ollie Cohen. Said Ted: "I'm sure he bought...
...also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten), but the prose is straightforward enough for Hemingway...
...declares sadly: "You stop trying to get ahead because you just don't know what is going to happen next." Twenty miles away in the tiny village of Las Vertientes, a local handyman has quit working and spends most days sitting idly in front of his crude shack. "El compaňero presidente," he says, "will give us everything we need...
...asked a man who sold coal out of his little, shack what the neighborhood was called. He said "The 15th of August." I said that I thought this was La Limonada. "Oh, some folks call it that, because so many here have to sell lemonade. Others call it the Crown of Thorns, because it rings the city. Are you in the Peace Corps?" No, I wasn't, why did they call it the 15th of August...
...discoveries were pleasant, reported TIME Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who made the trip with the Pope. On his last afternoon in Manila, Paul traveled to the dilapidated shacks of the city's Tondo slum. There he visited the home of Carlos Navarro, a construction worker who tries to support a wife and eight children on a dollar a day-when he can find work. Before he left Navarro's dirt-floored shack, the Pope slipped $500 into Navarro's pocket. For the astonished Navarro, the money meant at least two years' income. The Pope left...