Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making the welkin ring with the help of highly amplified announcements by Humorist Art Buchwald, in full ringmaster's regalia. Seven of Ethel's eleven offspring were on hand, and so was Uncle Ted-Ted Kennedy, the painter, that is. Next day, his painting Red Shack brought the high bid of $3,000 at an art auction in Boston for the benefit of the Kennedy Library Fund (seascapes by his sisters, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith, fetched only $1,500 and $900 respectively). The purchaser was Miami Millionaire Ollie Cohen. Said Ted: "I'm sure he bought...
...opium den was in a small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled...
...LAST night in Luang Prabang I ate dinner in the bamboo shack of a Lao translator I had met in the U.S. Information Service office. We ate a typical meal of tasteless "sticky rice." coated vegetables and soup. We talked about the war, the Americans and the Pathet Lao. "Do you know what Pathet Lao means?" he asked...
...also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten), but the prose is straightforward enough for Hemingway...
...declares sadly: "You stop trying to get ahead because you just don't know what is going to happen next." Twenty miles away in the tiny village of Las Vertientes, a local handyman has quit working and spends most days sitting idly in front of his crude shack. "El compaňero presidente," he says, "will give us everything we need...