Word: safaris
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kaffirboethie!" (nigger lover), a stocky man in a safari suit yelled at the political speaker in the Transvaal town of Rustenburg. A burly youth then launched a right hook at the heckler. Scuffles erupted throughout the hall before baton-swinging police managed to restore a semblance of order...
...August, almost the entire Ivy League went on a safari known as the Great Quarterback Hunt. As Harvard coach Joe Restic stalked the practice fields in search of a signal-caller, he didn't ask for the record-breaking passing arm of a Larry Brown or the wily elusiveness of pass-run threat Jim Kubacki...
...idea that news can be entertaining has surely occurred to Roone Arledge. Two years ago, in safari-jacketed splendor, Arledge emerged from a golden career as head of ABC Sports to take over ABC News as well. A collective shudder passed down through rows of the three-buttoned news executives. Arledge was celebrated for zippy sports coverage, instant replays, constant chatter (including the grating homilies of Howard Cosell) and ceaseless hype. Was he going to bring the same show-biz techniques to the serious business of news broadcasting? The man most worried was CBS News President Richard S. Salant...
What Brown hoped to accomplish with his safari remained unclear. As an open but un declared candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he may have wanted to acquire some credentials on international matters. He did meet with the leaders of Ken ya and Liberia and was planning to go to Tan zania. The trip also gave Brown a chance to inspect environmental protection programs, something he passionately supports. At one visit to a United Nations project, he saw a map showing that the danger of arable land turning into desert is greater in California than in Kenya...
...heiress (Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Co.), who frequently forsook affluent society to work for Dr. Albert Schweitzer in West Africa; after choking on a piece of meat at a New Year's Eve party; in London. Deterding first joined Schweitzer's hospital in 1956, while on an African safari. Assigned such chores as floor scrubbing and potato peeling, she stayed for a year, returning at irregular intervals until Schweitzer's death in 1965. "There are times when I like to suffer," said the peripatetic millionaire. "Having so much money makes it necessary to cleanse oneself...