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...nothing but a drafty old shack set up on rickety stilts. It was so dilapidated that when a new teacher arrived last fall, she took one look at it and hurried away to Cincinnati. Last month all 30 pupils went out on strike. They would not return, they said, until they got a new building...
...narrow beam arcing day and night across the base of low-lying clouds. Only 200 feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...
...across his chest, had paced back & forth guarding the showy marble Russian war memorial in Berlin's British sector. He had orders to bar visitors at night, but an elderly German couple had strolled by, and Leonid let them pass. A Red lieutenant came out of the guard shack, snapped at Ashkhenin: "For what you just did, you can be shot tomorrow...
...slumbered on their backs. Old men with black "birdcage" hats and two-foot-long pipes squatted, low down on their haunches, in front of ruined huts. Refugees, haggard and desperate, journeyed a long road, furniture and bedding piled high on "A-frame" and head, bound for a filthy cardboard shack which they would then call home. Before entering it, they would remove their shoes...
...hunting expeditions. In 1950, his savings gone, Steen moved to Tucson, went to work as a carpenter to get a grubstake. After a year, the Steens sold their trailer for $375, climbed into the family jeep and headed back across the desert for Cisco, where they rented a shack with no plumbing or electricity for $15 a month...