Word: sac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Tuesday afternoon this cheery salutation whangs out to some 50,000 American Indians from Station WNAD at the University of Oklahoma. Roughly translated, it means: "Hello, my friends, this is Kesh-ke-kosh, me, myself, I am here, speaking." Kesh-ke-kosh is Don Whistler, a rugged Sac and Fox Indian, who persuaded his alma mater to let him go on the air two years ago. His half-hour program (Indians for Indians) has the only regular Indian language broadcast in the U.S. It is unrehearsed and almost scriptless. Because of the diversity of speech among Indian tribes, much...
...Sac of Bestiality. Possibly the most horrible episode was discovered by the Fourth Relief. Lewis Keseberg, a German, had been left by his own request in the camp with Tamsen Donner and her dying husband. The Fourth Relief found a kettle full of pieces of George Donner, but there were legs of oxen which were lying around uneaten. Keseberg avoided the rescuers. He had long been suspected of stealing from the other members of the party. At last the rescuers cornered him "lying down amidst the human bones, and beside him a large pan full of fresh liver and lights...
They could not find Tamsen Donner. Keseberg later denied that he had killed her. But there in the camp he told the rescuers that "he ate her body and found her flesh the best he had ever tasted." They took Keseberg, "now a mere sac of bestiality," over the great divide down into California which had become America while he was developing his taste...
...young man on the operating table, close to death, got a local anesthetic. Dr. Finestone did a rib section and cut through the pericardial sac. As the blood spurted out of the right ventricle of the young man's wounded heart, an assistant surgeon caught it in sterile cups and sponges, and they put the blood back in the patient's body by transfusion. Dr. Finestone held the heart in his hand and stitched it up with long silk stitches. It jumped, he said, "like a fish out of water...
...dialect of the Algonquin tongue Sac and Fox Indians (in Iowa...