Word: raffia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more popular than ever before. In any of a hundred shapes, whether exquisite and chic or plain and substantial, wrought with precision by careful hand or knocked out en masse by machine, littered with "jewels" at a cost in the neighborhood of $150 or woven of raffia for $2.99, sandals are increasingly the newest, the nicest and the niftiest way to step out in style. The squares? Swinging. The beats? Beaten...
...wives-some inherited from his predecessor, some the gift of subjects eager to display loyalty, and some simply picked out by the monarch himself-were more than companions to King Lukengu. They sang his praises, danced at his orders, embroidered the exquisite raffia tapestries on the walls of his jungle palace, and when he sneezed they applauded. as royal protocol prescribes. But most important of all, they were obliged to support him-to supply him with food and all his other needs...
Hidden away behind the now-sagging raffia walls of his palace, King Lukengu himself is a broken man. He looks far older than his 60 years (as a man with 800 wives well might), and his rheumatism has grown so bad that a manservant has to raise him to a sitting position to receive callers...