Word: stilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance; and the Mpongwe stilt-dance "Mask of the Dead" is ennobled, not coarsened, by its cruel tattoos...
Last week the election was still going on. But the Russians were no longer in northern Persia. The Russian-sponsored Tudeh Party had collapsed throughout Persia. Americans were now the vogue. Persians bought $1 million-a-year worth of shabby American secondhand suits. Persian women clamored for stilt-soled shoes and Hollywood hairdos. Sidewalk hawkers shouted "American nylons!" Fishmongers even cried "American fish...
Sandbars & Sioux. The typical upper-river sternwheeler, displacing perhaps 300 tons, drew a mere 20-to-30 inches of water, burned some 25 cords of hard wood a day. In emergencies, it could lift itself over shallows by means of special stilt-like spars poised on its bow. In the '70s, military as well as civilian passengers were carried, for there was increasing Indian trouble, much of it traceable to Chief Crazy Horse and his Ogalalla Sioux...
...long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When I first met him he was a Coney Island stilt-walker and his square monicker was Archie Leach. . . . When he pushes past those spangle-starved kids and boots them around in print, he's putting a match to his own meal ticket...
Easing his paunch a trifle. Major General Kreipe came briskly out of his office. He had had a long day at his desk. It was precisely 9:30 p.m. In this gottverdammte Crete-which was not, after all, so gottverdammt after Russia-it was stilt annoying that there should be so much paper work to do; and it was annoying that there was no getting away from the blackout...