Word: mahout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extravagant for Alexander. Now and then, Baden-Powell ventured into the Boer lines to reconnoiter their positions. Much of the time he engaged in games, sketching and composing his fanciful reports to London. It seemed almost a pity when a column under Colonel Bryan ("The Mahout") Mahon rode into town to effect the celebrated relief. The whole Empire went gaga. In London, "Mafeking Night" lasted five days. It was, writes Gardner, "a vast and apparently uncontrollable upsurge of joy, nationalism, and mended pride...
...While the used-elephant market has been seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting...
...Crimson mahout Joseph M. Russin '64 will speak on elephant racing tonight at 8 p.m. in the Dunster House Junior Common Room. Russin will describe last Friday's race, and discuss plans for next year's championship. Admission is free...
...favorite for the contest in front of the largest (and only) crowd ever to witness an intercollegiate elephant race is Orange State, the home team. The Orange appear to have the biggest elephant and the most experienced mahout, and should go off at odds...
Russin said he learned that in elephant racing one must speak in a firm, deep voice. The two key words are "Rush!" (get going), and "Sabu!" (Stop). The Crimson mahout said he has been practicing the second of these carefully, since once elephants get mad enough to run, they've been known to go for four or five hours without stopping...