Word: cameleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burdens--and this was the straw that broke the camel's back, causing intervention--Haiti was without money. Always broke, she was at a continuous disadvantage in negotiating loans, and even her most astute diplomats had neither the experience nor the knowledge to cope with the shrewd European bankers. Thus she came out at the wrong end of nearly every bargain...
...captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned him in the desolate Blue Mountains. With a young English girl named Ada Allen Mace whom he later married, he escaped, stole a camel, reached the British lines...
...Negro slaves were illiterate before emancipation, some having attended clandestine schools. ¶ The Egyptian Government, in the 2nd Century, kept papyrus pay-vouchers from grain-hauling camel and donkey drivers. ¶ Americans in the Southwest, angered by British boundary limitations, were ready to revolt...