Word: grogan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most ardent admirers often prefer to remember gruff, octogenarian Colonel Ewart Scott Grogan as he was in the old days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape...
...years later, Grogan was defeated for Britain's House of Commons, largely because his opponent dwelled on the time young Grogan, back in Kenya, had set upon and thrashed a young Negro who had just been acquitted of trying to rape a white woman. After his electoral defeat in England, Grogan settled permanently in Kenya...
...constant thorn in the side of Colonial Office authority, inveighing now against the menace of the growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp of the colonial governor himself. Instead of wasting money on a swank new government house, young Grogan told testy old Governor Sir Edward Grigg, he ought to be made "to live in a tent." The governor soon thereafter curtailed his original ambitious building plans...
...these rascals and hang 25 of them in front of the others . . . they are just black baboons." This view outraged the Colonial Office, and left-wing sentiment in Britain, but the government's later (1953) building of a gallows on the golf course might properly be considered by Grogan an endorsement of his position...
Starting for the Crimson will be John Pille, Dave Rintels, and Dick Eldridge as attackmen. Manuel Cabral, Jerry Pyle, and Tag Edwards will be the mid-field-men, while Bob Fallon, Dave Stockwell, and John Grogan make up the defense. Chris Stone will start in goal...