Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for art's sake than a deadly serious business of magic, medicine, fetish and religion. To most white colonizers. African art has always been a mumbo-jumbo sort of thing, "proof" that the native African lacked cultural instincts...
...kidding, we're serious. There is an elephant race next week in California. We want to enter a Harvard elephant. Today is the crucial day. We must accept our option on the four-ten, 11-feet Jumbo mammal Senita or relinquish her to the barbariane of Yale or Washington State. Gall KI 7-2211 today with pledges for the Harvard Elephant Fund. This could be the sports event of the sixties...
...midst of all this revelry, halfway through the third quarter, Crimson midfielder Harry LeRoy maneuvered his way through a clump of Tufts' stickmen, and fired a shot past the Jumbo goalie into the nets. Now in most games, according to most rules, that makes a goal. But, no whistle, no nothing--the referee didn...
...have swum bare-arsed in the Maka-busi River with many piccanins in my poorer days," Sir Roy Welensky once roared on television. He obviously thought his statement was enough to disprove the charge that he is antiblack. But as Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, jumbo-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 282 Ibs.) Roy Welensky stands as the biggest and most powerful symbol of white supremacy in the largest and richest white colonial bastion still left in Africa...
Harvard managed to squelch a brief threat by Tufts in the sixth. With two out and two men on, Jumbo first sacker Benin took too long a lead off first base and found himself in a pickle. Crimson first baseman Bernstein tagged him as he tried to retreat...