Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore ("as one coming home from a casual . . . voyage") when the board grounded on a tiny, sandy island in mid-Danube. Old Anton Fischer, who lived on the island, welcomed the independent pig and escorted it to his shack, gravely holding the mayor's umbrella over his head...
...final prebattle conference was held last night. The hills round about were twinkling with the campfires of Chinese troops and in a nipa shack Chinese generals squatted with us about the burning logs, going over their plans...
...Bunch of Nerves." More & more in the last few years, liquor had been helping Mike to get away from depressing things. Time was when he could get away from things by running. At 14, to escape a future in the coal mines, he ran away from the four-room shack in Daiseytown, Pa. where he and ten other Slavik children lived on their father's scant coal-mining wages. At 16, Mike lied about his age and escaped into the Army. In the Army, Mike won a hero's medals, but injuries and battle strain were too much...
...farm with 500 chickens, ducks, a technical library, an evening school where navigation, mathematics, mechanics, history, English and foreign languages are taught; baseball fields, basketball and handball courts ; a beer garden and a bandstand. On the brow of a hill overlooking the great installation is a desolate, wilting shack - the only visible reminder of Jap occupation...
...some of the shacks there was ammunition - rifle and pistol clips careless men had left behind. These popped everywhere. In one shack a store of tracer bullets went up in the air, casting white, blue and red arching pencils like Roman candles over all the hills...