Word: kilimanjaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herding their cattle over the grassy uplands rolling down from Kilimanjaro in what is now Kenya and Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank cattle blood laced with urine. In periodic sport they swooped down on their Bantu neighbors, ramming seven-foot spears through the males and carrying off their women, who often did not seem to mind; the tall, aristocratic Masai were notable men, and Masai wives did not work...
...perpetrator of one of the slickest impersonations since the Prisoner of Zenda. His wacky tales of life in the Italian submarine service (he learned his English by sneaking up behind U.S. warships and watching the recreation movies), of golf games in Tanganyika (the course went up the side of Kilimanjaro; he shot a 77 and four Mau Mau), were not the product of an overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington...
...David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub. For $200 a throw, he got short stories and articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows of Kilimanjaro), served up the cheesecake of Artist George Petty as dessert. Despite the 50? price tag, fashion-plating Esquire boomed to a circulation of 625,000 in 1937. Chortled Publisher Smart: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch...
...ballot would neither give his enemies a hold over him by witchcraft nor make his wives sterile, the clan leader thrust his spear shaft into the ground, strode into the mud-and-wattle hut and voted. Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis...
...Masters. The Chagga saga began in 1932 when, with the permission of the British, African coffee growers banded together to found the spectacularly successful Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union. In the 26 years since, KNCU, the largest purely native commercial enterprise in colonial Africa, has boosted the Chagga from a tribe barely subsisting to a well-fed people with cash in their pockets. Each year, through their union, the Chagga market a $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 coffee crop. They own and operate a modern restaurant and hotel (The Coffee Tree Hostelry, with a balcony for every room), publish...