Word: pidgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning that the dangers of capturing Papuan black snakes far outweigh their medicinal value. Periodically, readers are brought up to date on population losses caused by wild boars, crocodiles, sharks and cannibals. Post advertisers plug canned butter, rainwater tanks, ceiling fans, copra boats and soap, sometimes in pidgin English: "Altaim waswas long sop new bilong im Palmolive...
This was no isolated phenomenon. "Cargo cults" ("cargo" is pidgin English for trade goods) have been observed repeatedly in the islands of Melanesia (including New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides). All of them share the belief that black men will acquire the white man's magic to materialize goods from overseas without doing a lick of work. British Sociologist Peter M. Worsley writes of the cargo cults in the May issue of the Scientific American, and lists and locates 72 of them...
...Scherschel and A.P.'s Charles Tasnadi (see cut). Some of A.P. Stringer Morris Rosenberg's early copy went out by phone in Yugoslav. At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, United Press Correspondent Joseph Taylor, 31, sent the first wire-service flash on the government's fall in pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes. Though phone calls were monitored, the censors concentrated on the Caracas-New York lines. Thus the New York Herald Tribune...
...slide showed a long-legged white bird that had flown aboard his ship on Trafalgar Day. "We called him Horatio," said Philip. "I must confess I still don't know what sort of bird it was.'' At one point he played a record of some pidgin English. "It is a very old language," he explained, "and has to be learned. For instance, they called me 'Fella belong Mrs. Queen...
...venerable western about the mean old rancher out gunning for the squatters who are fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings, Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood speak pidgin English to each other and sleep out on the prairie without a chaperon. The villains had several good chances to rub them out, but missed...