Word: grubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sturdy Ashantis, 900,000 strong, grub for gold and diamonds in the forest fastness of their hereditary King: Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, a dignified man in his 60s who plays golf, keeps several dozen wives, and uses as the symbol of his office a glistening Golden Stool...
...conflict between the sexes with candor and rare understanding," but this is not quite true. The Lovers has candor, all right, and its understanding is as rare as a steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe. What she investigates are not concealed roots but visible furnishings: "His body . . . had the ... apparent hardness of polished mahogany." "Her breasts [were] bare and the nipples speckled with silver flakes...
Their whispered propaganda makes much of the fact that 3,000 whites monopolize almost all the fertile land in the cool "White Highlands," leaving the blacks to grub for a living in barren, low-lying "reserves." The Mau-Mau teaches that the white man's medicine (e.g., anti-rinderpest inoculation) kills instead of curing, and that pregnant black women are aborted in white hospitals...
...Grub Afloat. A jolly type with a weather eye for pretty nurses, Bergman had made a quick comeback from the operation; in ten weeks he was back aboard the freighter on light duty. Three months later Dr. Doig let him go back to normal hours and duties. "He must be all right," says Althausen, "or he couldn't eat that ship's food. If you can stand that, you can stand anything...