Word: baba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranee consumed with remorse. She'll have bells on her fingers, And rings through her nose, And won't be permitted to wear any clothes. The Brookes had three pretty daughters, who grew up in England and were known to every tabloid reader as Princess Gold, Princess Baba and Princess Pearl. At a glittering society wedding in 1933, Gold became Lady Inchcape, but Baba and Pearl were toasted in every pub when they were married: Baba to a wrestler, Pearl to a bandleader. Stockpiling Heads. Their father had little time for frivolity. A shrewd, self-effacing administrator...
...Tanganyika's civil service; later he moved into the trade union movement, became its boss, then in 1957, shifted into politics as a member of the colonial legislature. There was no doubt who would remain Tanganyika's boss. "Naturally, Nyerere will be more powerful; he is baba yetu, father of the nation," says Kawawa. "I am a party man. What the party says goes...