Word: bloode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dingaan's treachery was soon punished. Later that year, on Dec. 16, 1838, on the banks of Natal's Blood River, another Voortrekker column, headed by Boer Leader Andries Pretorius, bloodily defeated Dingaan's plume-decked, assagai-hurling horde. Of 12,000 Zulus, more than 3,000 perished. The Boers resolved ever after to celebrate Dec. 16 as a day of thanksgiving...
Black Fear. Last week, on the 111th anniversary of the Blood River battle, the thanksgiving day turned into a raucous demonstration of Boer chauvinism. Prime Minister Daniel Malan's nationalist government formally dedicated a new monument to the Voortrekkers, a massive, brooding granite tabernacle on the boulder-strewn veld near Pretoria. South Africa's 8,000,000 black people were excluded from all celebrations. For days before the actual dedication ceremonies, while bonfires blazed in the hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel...
...been one of them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...
...maternal grandmother became a convert to the army when bearded, Godfearing General Booth was shocking England with his evangelism. Her daughter Mary Ivison was also a convert who met and fell in love with Joseph Pugmire, another Salvationist. Joseph was sent to plant the army's blue-bordered, blood-red flag in Kansas City, Mo., and Mary later followed and married...
...life has transformed many things for Old Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner...