Word: mau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equipped with an ideological fervor so single-mindless that even the Birch Society might suspect he is some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns out, have penetrated the British delegation, and so, in his inexorable way, does Tiger. The last Red head is blown...
...Mau Man days, may have felt somewhat embarrassed at his failure to bring about a "peaceful" solution to the hostage problem; though he condemned foreign intervention, he also called for continued "efforts at reconciliation" between the rebels and the Tshombe government. Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, a moderate who hifbself called for white help earlier this year when his army mutinied, ludicrously deplored the paratroop drop as "reminiscent of Pearl Harbor"-but then, he has Communist problems of his own at home...
Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...
...grounds of this one half-whimsical remark. Though nothing I could say could possibly damage SNCC's reputation with the white Mississippi press. I should like to set the record straight. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee remains nonviolent: we have no intention of forming a Mississippi Mau-Mau this summer or any other, neither do we intend to foment or encourage violent rsistance...
...part of SNCC's philosophy has not changed: the firm commitment to nonviolence. Some workers may joke about starting "a small Mau-Mau" or quietly express their belief that unless victories come soon in the South, race warfare could erupt. But these fears only increase the sense of urgency and dedication toward proving that nonviolent tactics can succeed. It seems tragically certain that there will be violence in Mississippi this summer; yet it is equally certain that such violence will not come from anyone associated with SNCC...