Word: hut
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...most accomplished warriors are allowed to go on a head-hunt. As soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets...
...humble Japanese mountaineer one chill evening long ago was sitting close to his stove when there came a knock on the worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over...
...hut rudely fashioned of driftwood against the base of a cliff, Stubbendorff and his diggers found the clothed skeleton of Fraenkel...
Persons nearby could hear: "Sir Arthur told me that one of you went into the hut [on the Doyle estate] this morning. Is that correct...
More birdies for golf links urged at Cornell. . . . Kills self in hut shared by goat. . . . Mosquito wins flight honors. . . . Woman publishes newspaper. . . . Asks $10,000 for Barber's slash. . . . Has taught school for 67 years. . . . Kentucky grandmother jailed for bootlegging...