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Word: sumtuous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much above the bare minimums their populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta's Yaméogo built himself a sumtuous country retreat with a swimming pool, while farmers still desperately seek water holes on the arid plains to keep their cattle from thirsting to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Soldiers on the March | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

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