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Word: germiston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTH AFRICA New Recruit A curly-haired British South African, awkward on his crutches after an automobile accident that shattered his right leg, hopped out of a green car one day last week at the entrance to Germiston Negro location, a sprawl of tin huts 15 miles east of Johannesburg. He was the first white recruit-and quite a catch-for the Passive Resistance campaign, organized by blacks, half-whites and browns against Prime Minister Daniel Malan's racial segregation laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: New Recruit | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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