Word: shee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then apparently dismissed them as a branch of the well-known Guarani people...
...actually his last chance of happiness. Author O'Connor's stories are best read individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips into the bathetic romanticism of the late Donn (The Woman of the Shee) Byrne; at his best, he writes like a James Joyce who has kissed the Blarney stone...
...took upon himself the awful task of writing the news of her sons' decision to Sin-shee Jang. "Mother has been tortured enough," he said bitterly, after the letter was mailed. "We want her to die now." He added, in helpless rage: "Those god-dammed Communists...
Last week Joe Jang got one last letter from China. Sin-shee Jang had killed herself by jumping into a well in the village...
...Hong Kong dollars. All had refused to pay, had been forced to kneel on the links of chains, with other heavy chains around their necks, and had then been denied food & water. In the end, all had confessed. One had been publicly executed but, pending payment, Sin-shee Jang was being forced to wear a sign reading "Landlord" and to walk miles each day on her bound feet...