Word: manus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KATIE DAVIS ENJOYS READING stories about kids who are a few years older than she is. As school ended for the summer, she started Lizard Music by D. Manus Pinkwater. "I love it," Katie says enthusiastically. "It's about a boy who is twelve. He's remembering last summer when he was eleven and his parents were away. He's left with his sister, but then his sister goes away for the weekend with these hippies at a camp. I don't know yet how it ends but maybe, because of the title, the boy will meet a lizard that...
...another, he has gamely donned a cowboy hat and an Indian headdress. Just returned from a four-day visit to the Commonwealth state of Papua New Guinea, Charles has of course acquired yet another item for his collection of ethnic headgear. Upon his arrival at the tropical island of Manus, Charles was officially named...
Lapan, or chief, and promptly crowned with a dog's-tooth headpiece containing a beaded Union Jack. The Prince thereupon declared in Melanesian pidgin English: "Wuroh, wuroh, wuroh, all man men bi-long Manus." Translation: "Thank you, all men and women of Manus." Well, what else could...