Word: rucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep in the forest, the jeep came to a halt and waited in darkness and silence. "The forest was full of eyes," said Henderson afterwards. "The pulse rate was not exactly normal," added Policeman Bernard Ruck. Presently there came a rustling, footsteps, then dark shapes. Two Mau Mau warriors loomed alongside. Henderson waved them aboard and the four drove out of the forest...
There are still cliques-of the literary, the fashionable, and the wonks (latterday meatballs). But there is also an amorphous ruck of plain Eugene Gants, one of whom Thomas Wolfe described as "prowling the stacks of the library at night, pulling books out of a thousand shelves and reading in them like a madman." A student can go through four years at Harvard and never say a word to the man who lives in the room next door. He may never go to a football game, never see the medical school, never sign a petition nor participate in a riot...
...tell you," said the red-faced man, downing his fourth brandy, "how the Rucks were murdered. The Mau Mau were on the farm for three days, hiding in the huts of the Rucks' 'trusted, loyal' Kukes. Nobody told the Rucks. When Roger Ruck spoke to one of his Kukes, the Kuke grinned, and said, 'Yes, bwana.' He didn't say, 'Bwana, it's all decided, we're going to kill you tonight.' When Mrs. Ruck was handing out medicine to sick Kukes, they didn't say, 'Look...
...white settlers are not cracking under the strain-yet-but they are playing it rough. After the massacre of the Ruck family, Kukes were rounded up in large numbers, marched to a barbed-wire camp for "screening," beaten and kicked (reliable witnesses say) en route, including women with babies strapped on their backs. The number of Kikuyu "shot trying to escape" has risen in remarkable fashion. One Kenya police reserve unit hauled in four Kikuyu men. The prisoners were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that...
Kenya's white settlers blame Kimathi for the recent murder of Planter Roger Ruck, his wife and six-year-old son, hacked to pieces as they strolled in their garden in their pajamas. One white policeman, a friend of the Rucks, is flushing the jungle alone, determined to get Kimathi...