Word: haitianize
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...bloodstained boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was threatened with bloodshed again. According to persistent reports, "incidents" along the frontier were approaching a state of undeclared war. Said one Dominican exile in a nearby country: "Not a day passes without some Haitian being murdered in the Dominican Republic." Said a Haitian official: "I expect there will be a war within two or three months...
...wife and four-year-old daughter are waiting out the war.) He was a youngster of 19 when he shipped as a private in 1917. During World War I he chafed aboard ship, a bored, seagoing marine. He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai...
...hour and a half last week the Haitian National Assembly made 18 changes in the Constitution. Women, though not considered ready to vote, were permitted to hold elective and appointive office up to Secretary of State. Other changes: 1) on the suggestion of chubby President Elie Lescot, the Senators and Deputies extended their own tenure until one year after the war; 2) on the suggestion of two Deputies, President Lescot's tenure was extended until...
Smart editors exploited young Seabrook's flair for abnormality. For them he covered deaths, murders, freaks, women bandits, gruesome accidents. Bohemian society was charmed by the thwarted, dark-haired man who shambled about like a hobo, was chummy with Arab sheiks, dined with African cannibals, plunged ecstatically into Haitian voodoo...
...career at 18, when he wangled a job with a New York export firm selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers. Since then he has led an up-&-down life that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such disparate ventures as peddling old Haitian ships to the U.S. Government in World War I; driving a milk truck in Wilmington; buying and selling land in Florida's real estate boom...