Word: galla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gradually absorbs them as its means of sustenance. The latter is more subtle and lazy--it makes no motions. Insects are lured into its pitcher-like growths and are so tangled and dazed by the intricacies within that they never return to daylight. Then there is the strange White Galla plant which spurts water from the tips of its leaves under a bright light...
...Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...
...British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and a sick Belgian officer into the back of their truck, they lit out for Addis Ababa. Just as they left town the hillsides behind them flashed like a thousand fireflies with blazing rifles. Aeroplane-directed Galla warriors marched into deserted Dessye, followed by Fascist legions two days later...
...Kassa may now return to Addis Ababa, the Italians hope and believe, not as the Negus' supporter but as his superior and perhaps even his enemy. The Italians look for profound developments within the unoccupied parts of Ethiopia within the near future. . . . The enormously important Galla tribes are friendly to the Italians and bitterly hate the Shoas and the ruling Amharas. When news of the defeat of Ras Kassa and Ras Mulugheta spreads, as it must, through Ethiopia, it is expected there will be profound repercussions. For this and other reasons the world may expect startling developments within...
...south entrance of the palace, a huge young Galla lifted his open hand and struck the great dull-brown Negarit (Em-peror's) war drum. OMMMM . . . OMMMMM . . . Forty smaller kettledrums from the palace answered, rommo-mmommommommomm. The booming throbbed, swelled, seemed to shake the air. On each of the mountain tops that hang over Addis Ababa other drummers smacked their drumheads. The monotonous, terrible call to war spread out from the capital, from mountain top to mountain top, across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes...