Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiss-tuh-kof-ski), volunteered for the White Russian army during the Russian civil war, served in the infantry and tank corps. In his two years of service, he almost died of typhus, was caught up by the Red army tide. Escaping, he shot his horse, jumped into the Black Sea and swam to a rescue ship, later made his way to Germany, where he enrolled for study at the University of Berlin in 1921, got his doctorate four years later...
...Like Old Black Joe. When the British liberated Singapore in 1945, the Baileys wandered out of prison and into town, found a house marked ENEMY PROPERTY. Bill added a note of his own-"Occupied by Bill Bailey"-and moved in. The couple liked the place, settled down, soon turned it into the Coconut Grove. Old Trouper Bailey had come home at last...
...elevated platform, with its black-and-red-lacquered railings and its bright green flooring, four dancers in silk brocade robes turned their green-masked faces to the audience. The translucent music wavered hypnotically, swelling and fading in little drum-punctuated strands of sound. The dancers flexed their knees slowly, extended their slippered feet to describe airy figures on the dance cloth...
...natives killed all their pigs-principal sources of food and symbol of social position-in the belief that after three days of darkness, "Great Pigs" would appear from the sky. Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear...
...hard work and small returns explodes in passion when a sharecropper runs off with another woman, then humbly comes home when his wife sends him a note saying: "God forgive me ... if I should judge you." These stories were originally published in 1925, and the problem of white and black that is currently convulsing South Africa is touched on in only one; grimly and perhaps prophetically, Ludo-vitje describes an African native as the only man strong enough to dig the graves for the white family that employs...