Word: kosti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the horror of the Black Hole was re-enacted in the newly independent Sudan when some 300 rioting Sudanese farmers on strike at a cotton project on the White Nile were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only...
Speedup. In Phoenix, Ariz., after Jesse F. Roberts, 81, and Katherine Kosti, 89, failed to elope because she couldn't push his wheelchair fast enough to escape officials of their rest home, they tried again with the help of a friend and automobile, made...