Word: namaqualand
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...African nature, the circle of life has fangs: mosquito bites man, fish eats mosquito, crocodile eats fish, man shoots crocodile, man dies of malaria. But for a few weeks a year, South Africa witnesses the climax of a somewhat gentler natural cycle. Most of the time, Namaqualand is a featureless swath of scrub desert running from just north of Cape Town up the coast to Namibia. From August to October, however, these plains explode in a display of wild flowers. What was once brown, dusty and flat is transformed into a sea of pinks, oranges, yellows, whites, purples and reds...
...deserts. South Africa has three: Namaqualand, the Kalahari and the Karoo. Namaqualand and the Kalahari both extend into neighboring countries, but the vast Karoo - hundreds of miles of dusty plains, barren mountains and rocky canyons stretching across the central hinterland - is South Africa's alone. As a former frontier for European colonists, it is a place thick with history and bloody legend...
...drives a predisposed, infantile husband to lose all interest in his home and accept his wife as he would "an old bird dog." To become adult in marital relations is not enough, says Cohn. Women must turn over a new public leaf. Instead of enthusing "for the missions of Namaqualand," they might pay some attention to "the essentials of local government." Instead of talking complacently about the glories of the U.S. educational system, women might "concern themselves with their community schools" and raise the pay of women teachers. They might also try to help marital problems at their youthful source...
...July 1941, a U-boat took Leibbrandt to a point off desolate Namaqualand, South Africa. With $10,000 and radio equipment he rowed ashore in a rubber dinghy. For three days he walked across the hot plains, finally got a lift to Cape Town. Then he headed for the interior...
TIME correctly stated that Isidore W. Schlesinger will operate diamond cutting plants at Kimberley and assume a contract with the South African Government. TIME was incorrect in stating that Cineman Schlesinger will mine diamonds in Namaqualand. He will get his diamonds from the De Beers syndicate, will engage in no price-cutting...