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Word: nylstroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With voting day only two weeks off, Premier Johannes Strijdom last week carried South Africa's election campaign to his sun-baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Lion's Roar | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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