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Word: moseses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moses and Olentwala practiced throwing the rungu. Then they lazed for a time under the trees. Out of the sun, East Africa cools by 10 degrees or 15 degrees F. Altitude and breeze and shade. Moses, showing off, undertook to make fire. He found a piece of cedar, planed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

The Masai elder sat in the Lord Delamere Restaurant in the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and explained that all animals are left-handed. It is true, said the elder, named Moses. Never get onto a lion's left side. A lion attacks to his left. All animals instinctively lead with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

The Masai are pastoralists who have always lived among the wild animals, lived amicably enough, with some violent exceptions that come with the territory. Moses lives in the remote Loita Hills in southwestern Kenya. On this day he wore his Nairobi clothes: two sweatshirts, one over the other, and dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

On the table Moses demonstrated how the rhinoceros thinks. He used the saltshaker to represent the American visitor. The pepper shaker would be the rhino. The sugar bowl would be the boulder that stood between them. "Be careful," Moses warned. He moved the rhino in an ominous drift to its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

"Rhino will always go to the left, like this," said Moses softly. He knocked down the saltshaker with a sharp crack of the pepper shaker, like a chess master toppling the king. The visitor went down. White grains of salt spilled out of the holes in the top of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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