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Word: binghi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark's kindly, conventional brother Oscar became a cattle grazier who remembered the lecture of an old combo: "Study the Binghi [aborigine], Oscar, and you'll find he's a different man from you in many ways, but in all ways quite as good." When six-year-old Nawnim, "hardened with food snatched from dogs and salted with sand and ants" was deserted by his father and delivered on Oscar's doorstep, howling and stinking, Uncle Oscar took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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