Word: thu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leprosarium authorities, leper leader Maung Kyaw Thu laid down demands to be met "immediately": 1) improve the wretched diet; 2) reduce working hours of inmates (now six hours daily); 3) step up injection treatments of chaulmoogra oil to the prewar level...
...seemed strange and irksome to a six-year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey got Ad Poak, the hired man, to take the horse clippers to his shoulder-length hair...
...Church's 861 pastors mounted their pulpits to announce their own resignations. With this magnificent declaration of independence, the pastors at one stroke set their church free, cut off their state-provided livelihoods, left themselves facing concentration camp or death. (One of them, Arne Thu. vicar of Vestby and veteran Indian missionary, died in a concentration camp at Grini last June after being forced to crawl hundreds of yards with his hands behind his back and a latrine bucket in his teeth, for the amusement of his quisling guards.) But all made clear that they would continue to carry...
...heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody can do about...