Word: ane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th-Century Italy, public dissections were held in university halls and were occasions for great festivity. In the 16th Century, British surgeons were legally allowed to dissect dead bodies. Edinburgh surgeons were granted "ane condampnit [condemned] man after he be deid." But by the 18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected...
Tigre tribesmen apparently considered that the authority of Emperor Haile Selassie in their province had been shattered and that any of his soldiers not natives of Tigre were fair game. As an exhausted straggler would stumble into a village last week, angry spearmen would rush out to ask "Ane men? Who are you?" If the straggler answered in any Ethiopian tongue except the Tigrean dialect he was killed...