Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 4,000 village councils, elected by universal suffrage. This grass-roots democracy was something new to French Africa, and in the hidebound Moslem region of Fouta Djallon even some women got elected. "The election of women, griots and former slaves," declared Touré expansively, "is the mark of a veritable prize of political conscience, a spiritual revolution...
...Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed in a skirt shaped after his Luo tribal costume of skins, but a flunky in knee britches and silver buckles carries...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (388 pp.)-Edited by Charles Neider-Harper...
...alive. I am dead," wrote Mark Twain. "I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I would be writing an autobiography on the normal plan." There was certainly nothing normal and no plan about his autobiography. He began writing it at 42 and believed that it "would live a couple of thousand years." When he died at 74, in 1910, he left about 500,000 words of notes, scraps, reminiscence and recrimination...
Since then three editors have tried to shape this mass into an orderly autobiography. The first version appeared in 1924, and by cutting out all seemingly offensive passages. Editor Albert Bigelow Paine tried to keep Mark Twain's reputation as spotless as his linen. In 1940 Bernard DeVoto published another portion of the manuscript. Now Charles Neider, novelist and essayist, gives what seems closest to the truth of the matter...