Word: mamba
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...several occasions I have shot mamba, which are the most poisonous snakes around. The snakes are extremely fast," says Clay Professor of Archaeology Nicolaas J. van der Merwe. He encountered the snakes while surveying a South African game reserve for possible Iron Age vilage sites...
...began to sense that Rutger had not told me the whole truth when he had said that we were going to cover a Mamba festival. "Rutger, level with me. Those crates in the back of the plane--they're not really full of noisemakers, are they...
This sort of vehement class consciousness is only one of the likely manifestations of designer underwear's invasion of our society. We can also expect to see the rites of courtship and seduction radically altered, as the mamba dancers of sex and class twine in ever more perverse ways. Women will use the new class markers to find themselves suitable mates and lovers. For instance, in "fast" cultural sub-groups we might expect to find men sidling up to women at bars and, instead of buying them drinks and flashing large billfolds, performing quick pirouettes followed by a hiking...
...that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes in Liberia...
...promise of Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi, 31, who has called for a national reconciliation with the deceptively simple slogan: "Pacification with persuasion." A mild Oxford scholar, Sadik last July replaced Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, who chose to discourage the rebellious Anya Nya (named for the poison of the black Mamba snake) with retaliatory raids on southern villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi's Michel Micombero is only 26) convinced...