Word: kimberley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During and shortly after World War I, his son Kimberley and his brother Innes died; and, believing that mediums could put him "in touch" with them, the bereaved Doyle turned his whole strength into spiritualism...
...ministerial act that set angry South Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered...
...walls of London's Australia House last week, painted beings with white, mouthless faces wavered. Some of them appeared to be swimming in seas of little kangaroos, ducks, lilies and yams. They were copies of rare aboriginal cave paintings found in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia-and they looked a good deal fresher than the child's play of much modern...
...conquest. Consumptive son of an English parson, Cecil John Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon. At first, he commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which his money might...
Kruger was a shrewd horse trader and a grasping man. But diamond-studded Kimberley and gold-booming Johannesburg (which lay in his own territory) horrified him. These mushroom cities swarmed with the world's adventurers, who swam in alcohol and commonly bid up to $100 (plus three cases of champagne) for one night with a prostitute. The invaders also overran the countryside, tapping the rocks with their greedy little prospector's ham mers and dazzling the Boer farmers with sovereigns...