Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pine Mountain, 37 miles from Columbus, Ga., a group of men awaited their initiation into the Ku Klux Klan one night last week. One by one they were summoned, unsheeted, into a tar-paper shack to "take the obligation." When the last man had been called, three still remained outside. They had not been invited; they were three newsmen from the Columbus Ledger who had been tipped that this was to be the biggest Ku Klux Klan gathering around Columbus in 20 years...
Talbot recalled later: "Bellows just kinda folded up on the ground. . . . They just threw him down beside the fire." Talbot and Johnson went on drinking. Finally the Klansmen dragged all three into the shack, jabbed a hypodermic into Johnson's arm, gave Talbot two jabs...
Living in a tiny, corrugated iron shack with no blankets and little food, the pair laboriously painted copies of 100-yen and 10-yen notes by hand. Kanji, a onetime mechanical draftsman, sold them apologetically at a 10% discount, explaining that the ink had been blurred in a faulty printing press. In ten months, the total take was less than...
Back in Tokyo again, the Akai family built a tidy shack on the ruins of their old home. While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
...noon on the range, Bob Kleberg and the vaqueros sit down in a range shack, where a freshly killed calf has been barbecued, or gather at the chuck wagon for smoke-tanged frijoles, slabs of pork, biting hot wild peppers, bread baked in dutch ovens over wood coals, coffee and molasses (eaten with the meat...