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Word: elbowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mboya's elbow during the talks will be Thurgood Marshall, general counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., who flew to Kenya from the U.S. to advise on tactics. Kenya's white settler extremists firmly reject the idea of an African government and insist that Britain remain in control indefinitely. Last week Governor Sir Patrick Renison signed a red-ribboned document formally ending the seven-year Mau Mau state of emergency. In Nairobi's African locations, thousands of natives celebrated on a native beer called pombe, and burned the hated identification passbooks they have had to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH AFRICA: With Malice from Some | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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