Word: rhino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the shaded terraces of the White Rhino Hotel, Kenya's white citizens look over their teacups at Nyeri golf course, one of the world's finest. Last week, as they watched, a squad of black policemen trundled on to the fairway an odd-looking contraption of ropes and parallel bars. It was the Crown Colony's portable gallows, an 18th century-style instrument used to dispatch Mau Mau terrorists near the scene of their crimes...
...stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band of 40 Mau Maus. The Kenya government...
...balmy spring afternoon sometime in the early 30's a young woman sat on the grass at Bronx Zoo sketching a female rhinoceros. The rhino had been making "silly squeaks," something which had particularly impressed the artist, when suddenly the broad beast charged to the bars and tried to drag the young woman into the cage...
...hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open anteroom behind his desk, to stalk an idea among the stuffed heads of a water hog and an antelope, the skins of a lion and a jaguar, the sawed-off feet of an elephant and a rhino. Working in relay, three stenographers dashed into the huge office to scribble notes, dashed out again to rush the words down through the hierarchy of the 20th Century-Fox Film Corp...