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Word: shilluks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briton in khaki shorts stood nearby in a thatched mud hut that served as a polling station. The Shilluk voters hesitated, fingering the red-painted beads of flesh that stand out on their foreheads, peering at a row of empty gasoline cans-the ballot boxes. Asked a Shilluk: "Into which can do we drop the magic paper?" Said the white man: "You must choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: Democracy for Dinkas | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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