Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wary of the strikers at first, the soldiers soon rubbed sore shoulders with them in neighborhood pubs. Bert's Bar, a dingy shack in Smithfield market, set the tone with an inviting sign: "Bert's Buns Are Better than NAAFI."* Inside soldiers and strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman...
...there were returning brides, but atop the list were 1) too few houses, and 2) too many in-laws. Mrs. Margaret Bann, 26, tried three months in Saskatchewan, quit it and her husband because "the home he said was waiting for me turned out to be a one-room shack." Some complained of drinking or faithless husbands, and of in-laws who did not like children...
...elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
Slum dwellers, who live in the tin-shack favelas, rifle garbage as a matter of course. They also follow the gay-looking public markets for scraps to live on. Meanwhile, grocers put prices higher...
...pins out of oil-drilling rigs. They grew up in gold-mining Cripple Creek, published the Cripple Creek daily Times-Record. Recently Mrs. Kyner sniffed the excitement at Rangely, bought the News from an oil promoter. She and her 16-year-old daughter, Gloria, moved into a corrugated-iron shack office while Mrs. Ingham stayed in Denver as capital correspondent...