Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last July Davo thought he had Kimathi cornered in a tent made of bamboo and skins in an Aberdare bamboo forest. Accepting help for once, he led a charge of African riflemen into the tent. A burst of submachine-gun fire caught him in the belly and the shoulder. Keeping on his feet only long enough to club his Mau Mau assailant (who was not Kimathi) to death, Davo fell to the ground. He was rushed from the jungle to a hospital in Nairobi...
...membership in spite of the above so as to be better able to fight those skunks who think more of the Kremlin than they do of the good old USA. Never a word of sympathy from them or old Furry regarding our boys who has prisoners of war suffered bamboo stabs all over their body (see this week's Newsweek) in their fight for the skunks above...
...band of Kikuyu women, naked except for thongs of leather tied round their shaven heads, recently stole out from a bamboo thicket on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Armed with shiny pangas, they crept into a Kikuyu village, killed three Kikuyu men and a 14-year-old boy. The victims were Kikuyu guards, loyal to the white men and pledged to fight...
Other eye-catchers: stainless-steel flatware, handles merging smoothly into tines and blades ($1.40 a fork); a Danish salad fork and spoon set of black, polished horn ($5); a pair of handwoven, Japanese bamboo scoops, for crackers or nuts ($1) ; a green-and-red curtain fabric with a stained-glass window design ($9 a yd.); a handy, steel portable fireplace...
...brewed, week-old brandy to the island officers' clubs. The brandy business booms and little Tobiki thrives. A teahouse is built. This set, designed by Peter Larkin, is beautifully done, and drew opening-night applause. Larkin's other sets are fairly good. Particularly effective is his use of a bamboo curtain that is raised in sections like the sails of a junk...