Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...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...
...Mine-Mill invasion of the uranium fields was carried off by typical Communist methods. Last February one of Murphy's organizers, posing first as a mining official and later as a newspaper reporter, arrived in Uranium City. Living in a shack tent, he worked among the miners in the evenings and on weekends, promising them more pay, better bunks, shorter hours. An anti-Communist C.I.O. union tried to stem the Mine-Mill drive. Mine-Mill "put the case in terms of pork chops," said a government labor official. "The [other fellows] talked vaguely." Before long, the anti-Communists withdrew...
...square with a deep hole in its center, the community's only sanitary system. It is a place of shred-clothed beggars, gypsies, shrill urchins, stray dogs, pigs and piles of garbage. Whenever a new family arrives, the whole community turns to and helps build them a shack by night, when the police dare not interfere. When morning comes they have a "house," and can stay there as long as they want...