Word: mens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paxton's chauffeurs managed, with wire and rope, to get the jeep to a mud-hut village. There the local garrison commander, who had taught himself English in order to listen to BBC broadcasts and read the Reader's Digest, put his men to work and all but rebuilt the jeep overnight...
...making, Moslem town of Yarkand. Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for seven months, were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named It (Turki dialect for dog) decided to join the caravan for pot luck...
...peak strength of 5,000 men, Macao's defenders crowd the little colony so that it appears armed to the teeth. But, as one high officer observed: "It's just a face-saving army. We don't have enough men to stop anything at the border, and too many for the simple job of keeping order in the city...
...Those who believe Heaven is their destination and that class distinction exists behind the pearly gates should make a point of dying in Klerksdorp . . . Yet the enlightened men of Klerksdorp have not assuaged all our post-earthly anxieties. Will St. Peter provide separate counters for applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...
South Africa's white men have decreed that South Africa's black men must carry official permits to travel, to work or be absent from work, to walk the streets after 9 p.m., to have their wives live with them in "locations" (suburban areas, usually overcrowded shantytowns, set aside for natives). Some 75,000 blacks go to jail each year because they are without proper passes. A hangover from slavery days, the pass system is a major grievance of the black majority against the ruling white minority...