Word: afrikaanse
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¶ To describe the "dip-free" Sheaffer Snorkel pens in South Africa, Grant had to find a substitute for dip (doop), which means "baptize" in Afrikaans.
¶ In Afrikaans, Palmolive's commercial, sung to the tune of "A Tisket, A Tasket," goes like this:
No More Short Cuts. Boer nationalism was in fact the issue, though most of the noise was about apartheid-the religiously held dogma that 2,600,000 whites (Boer and Briton) should rule four times their number of blacks, half-whites and browns. Malan's racial stand was strident...
The campaigning is rough. Johannesburg's Afrikaans Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler published a cartoon of a panga knife labeled "Mau Mau" piercing a black cloud and hanging over a white family, with a caption: "Vote Nationalist to avert this." Brigadier C. I. Rademeyer, head of South Africa's...
The alternative to this ironic domination is equality: abolition of "Jim Crow" (apartheid in Afrikaans), permission for Negroes to own property, equal economic opportunity. Even the right to vote is crucial to the alternative, certain as it is that they would dominate the government as they dominate the population.