Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Mombasa (pop. 85,000), chief town in the steamy coastal plain, a gang of blood-smeared Negroes buried the remains of two mutilated sheep, then crept back to their huts after taking the Mau Mau oath: "I swear to kill a white man, or may this oath kill me!" One of the oath-takers was a 31-year-old Negro servant, well known for his loyalty to Mrs. Eileen Ennis, one of Mombasa's 2,000 whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police...
Police hoped for an end to the Trumbull Park riots, the most sustained in Chicago's history. Howard hoped that his retreat would make life easier for the other Negro families, but in the tense South Side, hate is not easily appeased. Recently, a teenage gang stoned two Trumbull Park Negro women, both pregnant, as they walked home from a grocery store. Chicago expected trouble in the sultry summer nights ahead...
...night in 1709, a gang of bullies set fire to a thatched cottage in Epworth, England, where their censorious Anglican vicar lay sleeping. The Rev. Samuel Wesley and his family escaped in their nightshirts, but one small son got left behind in the rush. It took a valiant rescue effort to save five-year-old John Wesley from the flames, and when he was restored to his mother, she is supposed to have offered a prayer: "See-is not this a brand, plucked from the burning...
...been killed on the Alcan project, 33 in tunnel and mountain accidents, 15 in plane crashes. But no time has been lost. Three of the eight big generators are now being set in place. By July, the first power will surge over transmission cables. Wrote Morrison to Strandberg: "The gang is indeed to be congratulated...
...When Manon betrayed him for the last time, he sang, "I can stand it no more!" and the audience, almost as one, howled back, "Neither can I!" Even the old gentlemen of the Hunt and Chess clubs, who occupied stage boxes, stood up and yelled "basta!" (enough!) with the gang in the balcony. At times, the only indications that music was being performed were the movements of singers' mouths and the conductor's baton...