Word: dar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa fighting a decisive battle for human dignity...
...Sahara-Hindus (the majority), Sikhs, Ismaili and Shia Moslems, Parsees and Christians from Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants to buy-a bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle...
...restrictions are placed upon the Asians, but in Southern Rhodesia a Hindu may not buy liquor without a special permit. A Moslem attorney from Nyasaland, working on a case in the capital of Southern Rhodesia, suddenly found that he could not use the washroom or take the elevator. In Dar es Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union of South Africa, Asians have long since been virtually eliminated from voting rolls, have been gradually squeezed out of the civil...
Furthermore, although it enabled us to have the "Boston tea party, the revolution, and the DAR," if it were dried up, we could have the Henley races on the East River from the U.N. to Wall St., and could juxtapose Hadrian's wall and the Mason-Dixon Line...
...opold-Sédar Senghor, 52, the grand old man of Senegalese politics, widely regarded as Africa's foremost intellectual. An opinionated and brilliant man, the son of wealthy Catholic parents, Senghor started his career as a teacher in the Parisian Lycée Louis-le-Grand, which traditionally gets the cream of Sorbonne graduates for its faculty. He fought with the French as an infantryman in World War II, joined the Resistance, became a literary lion in Paris after publication of his poems, Chantes d'Ombre. His second wife is a Frenchwoman. As one of the architects...