Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evacuation of British troops now occupying the Nile Valley and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was demanded by Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt at Lake Success yesterday. It was the second time the African nation had made the appeal within a week, and British representative Sir Alexander Cadogan again replied with bitterness...
...traditional European symbol of death is the skeleton with a scythe, toothy, faceless, but curiously fragile. Recently, a young, African art student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
Strolling along on the banks of the Nile, he came across a water carrier consuming the remains of a large Ibis, a North African heron who sports a magnificent bone. A crocodile had beaten the fellahin to the Ibis feast, and the native was about to attack the remains with a large knife, when Rothenberg stayed his hand with "fellow, spare that bone...
Argasidae and Ixodidae are the two U.S. tick families. In dozens of varieties they infect man with diseases that are often fatal: Kenya typhus, South African tick-bite fever, Bullis fever, Russian encephalitis, the Q fevers, tularemia (rabbit fever), tick paralysis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This summer, in southern Maryland, Texas, and other tick-infested areas, widespread experiments in spotted fever vaccination are being tried...
Five years in the South African Air Force changed him from a 1 20-pounder to a heavy-jowled 180, and mellowed him a bit. When he arrived in the U.S. last April, galleries were impressed with his jaunty plus fours, his cheery smile, the way he tipped his cap to applause. Even more impressively, he won four of his first six tournaments against the best U.S. pros (TIME, June 9). Former U.S. Open Champion Lawson Little said ruefully: "He hasn't anything on anybody over here except concentration . .-. and he's the finest putter who ever putted...