Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of seven, the tribunal ordered U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to pay legal fees of $300 each and damages ranging from $6,000 to $40,000 (for an "anthropologist and African specialist" whose field, the tribunal said, was so narrow he would be hard put to find a job elsewhere). The other four Hammarskjold was told to reinstate in their jobs. Ten of the eleven were Americans who had retired behind the Fifth Amendment last year when congressional probers asked them whether they were or had been Communists, and whether they were or ever had been engaged in espionage...
...furnacelike heat of the North African summer, the Moslem holy day of Aid el Kebir rolled around. On that day the heads of Moslem families sacrifice a ram in memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a male sheep in place of his son Ishmael, ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since...
...that, with India seated, the conference could roam at will across the whole range of Asian problems, including the question of U.N. recognition of Red China. The British were prepared to sponsor India on the floor of the full Assembly, where the Indians might pick up enough Asian and African votes to secure them an invitation...
...South Africa.' But most critics agreed that Author Paton' had a very compelling manner, if not a truly original style, and that he had painstakingly wedded manner to matter, especially in describing the life of his beloved country and the tragedy of the Negro in South African society...
...District Judge C. Roy Anderson recessed the divorce case of Charles and Dale Wright when the couple could not agree on the value of their common stock: two cobras, two boa constrictors, one anaconda, two eagles, one hawk, four Gila monsters, one owl, five donkeys, two chimpanzees, two African lions, two mountain lions, two lynxes, three raccoons, one coyote, one porcupine, one skunk, one South African rattlesnake, and an unspecified number of Southwestern rattlesnakes...