Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last January, two young Boer farmers named Petrus and Pieter Gouws drove up to their neighbor's farm on the parching South African veld. The Gouws asked for Joseph Mokwatsi, a 17-year-old Negro employed as a field hand, explaining to his master: "We think he stole two jackets, and we want him to show us where he hid them." Joseph was handed over; the Gouws tied a leather thong around his neck, threw him into their truck and drove...
...story impact and excitement. Movie fans do not care a whit if he (unlike Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck) is killed during the course of a picture. Cab drivers, burglars and women admire him. And on top of all this, as an Academy-Award winner (for his part in African Queen), he also lends a film an aura of distinction...
...Rommel, Frau Lucie sat beside Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib at the showing, was also greeted cordially by Premier Gamal Nasser. Later she placed wreaths on war memorials to both Allied and Axis soldiers at El Alamein, where Rommel lost the crucial battle of the North African campaign...
...Henry John Clayden convened the Witwatersrand division of South Africa's Supreme Court for one important minute-just long enough to hand down a copy of his lengthy (100,000 words) decision in the longest (385 days) civil suit, awarding the largest damages ($1,600,000) in South African legal history...
...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Gadein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...