Sentence examples for hootch from inspiring English sources
The pair had emerged empty-handed from five or six of the huts when Rafe, ever his amiable, accommodating self, pointed to a white hootch ahead and called out, "There's a pretty girl in there!
Before the patrol left the hamlet, a swarm of local children materialized, chattering agitatedly in a circle around Mao, and then out of the white hootch came Loc.
Just before it did, Eriksson moved away from the entrance to the hootch, where he had been standing, and sat down alone on the grassy turf to one side of the structure; periodically, he raised his field glasses to gaze at distant points.
Pointing to the hootch, he signalled to Rafe to be his successor, and Rafe, sparing himself ridicule, walked in.
Arriving on the run, the two explained their errand to Clark, who heard the news eagerly, then pulled rank on Eriksson and ordered him to take his place in guarding the hootch.
Well, during this Operation Thayer II, which started [last October], we ran into a hootch that was burned down.
They lingered in it longer than they had in the other hootches, but since Eriksson was standing outside the hut he is unable to describe what went on inside.
Asked whether Meserve might not have been searching the hootches of Mao's hamlet for the strictly military purpose of finding "strange faces," he answered, "I wouldn't say this, sir. They were all strange faces".
First Lieutenant James T. Cooney was flying Colonel Henderson's helicopter over My Lai 4; he told the Peers commission, "I did notice several hootches burning, several buildings burning, possibly rice stores.
In disbelief and confusion, his heart palpitating, Eriksson saw that Meserve was losing no time in carrying out his plan, for, with Clark at his heels, the Sergeant had embarked on a systematic search of the hamlet's hootches.
"He wanted the hootches [huts] burned, and he wanted the tunnels filled in, and then he wanted the livestock and chickens run off, killed, or destroyed.
