Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herding, the notebook again: "Cows (11:54 a.m.) smell lion and start bawling loudly. They smell fresh lion urine. Moses sees it, pts to spot with spear. Still wet. Lions must be downwind from us now. Cow horns all went up exactly at once when they smelled. Hot noon sun. Moses laughing. Cows still afraid, horns up, smelling. WE CHASE THREE LIONS through forest. One growls. They get away thru bush and olive trees. We chase for 150 yds. and they have slipped away. This is somewhat dangerous business...
Moses and Olentwala practiced throwing the rungu. Then they lazed for a time under the trees. Out of the sun, East Africa cools by 10 degrees or 15 degrees F. Altitude and breeze and shade. Moses, showing off, undertook to make fire. He found a piece of cedar, planed the top, and with his Masai sime (short sword) bored a starting fire hole. He cut a twirling stick and found the seedpod needed to catch and preserve the fire. Then he and Olentwala set about the rubbing, and soon they had a little smoking seed of flame in Moses' palm...
Llewelyn Powys, a young English poet, came out to settle in Kenya early in the century. He wrote that Africa was a "country frequented by clawed creatures with striped and gilded pelts, where nettles sting like wasps and even moles are as large as water-rats . . . The sun, naked as when it was born, sucks out one's life blood, and nourishes savagery long since made dormant by the pious lives of one's ancestors. Kill! Kill! Kill! is the mandate of Africa...
...addition, Cornell will augment its promotion and recruitment programs for women and minorities, The Daily Sun reported...
...players have it all over the baseballs. The major leaguers stretch and twist and run under a warm sun, but the baseball's lot is to enter the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co.'s "torture chamber...