Word: gary
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers did not have to do all the killing. They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians, who rampaged through the city armed with stones, cutlasses, machetes, and homemade weapons of metal and broken glass. Crying "Heathen!" and "Allah!", the mobs and troops invaded the sabon gari (strangers' quarter), ransacking, looting and burning Ibo homes and stores and murdering their owners...
...Boyhood. One of his heroes is flame-bearded Uncle Barbarossa, a dynamiter by trade who in off-hours spouts revolutionary speeches at his aged beagle Garibaldi. When the time comes for the ailing dog to be destroyed. Uncle Barbarossa is determined that "General Gari baldi shall not die a bourgeois death" but exit gloriously in an explosive blast. He corsets the dog with two sticks of dynamite, buries him in a snowbank and lights the fuses. But faithful Garibaldi lopes after his master, and half of West Hoboken scrambles for dear life. The animal goes out with a bang...