Word: oryx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Villagers from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro presented Queen Elizabeth with a stuffed oryx head and 600 lbs. of coffee, and a three-day festival in her honor featured native dances. One performance, on the theme of "defending the nation and building the economy," was danced by ten-year-olds brandishing wooden rifles, spears, hoes and machetes. At one point half the youngsters set about symbolically killing the other half. Asked what this scene signified, a Tanzanian official explained that the victims were "either the forces of Idi Amin, or racists...
...least hospitable places on earth. A steady wind moans over the crocodiles basking on the banks of blue-green Lake Turkana and flattens the knee-high beach grass where the long-horned oryx graze. Beyond stretches the desert of northeast Kenya, baked by the African sun. In a wadi, or dried-up stream bed, not far away, a sandy-haired man moves slowly, his loose shorts and shirt flapping in the breeze, his head bare to the sun, his eyes searching the arid soil at his feet. Some 50 ft. away, sandals scuffing dust into the air behind...
...blend mangoes and melons and other combinations of fruits or vegetables. For animal fanciers, Environment tells of a zookeeper trying to collect as many of Eden's original inhabitants as possible. That is good news to anyone who has never seen an addax, or even an Arabian oryx...