Word: swahili
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...brave British policemen volunteered to deliver the letters. They were Special Branch Superintendent Ian Henderson, 27, and his strapping blond assistant, 32-year-old Bernard Ruck. Henderson is a slim, nut-brown Scot who grew up with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm. He speaks Swahili, Meru, Kamba, Kikuyu, French and Afrikaans. Day after day, following China's directions, Henderson and Ruck drove into the forest, unarmed and alone. The forest had eyes, and one captured Mau Mau reported a snatch of dialogue between two Mau Mau sentinels...
...once on safari, Hemingway met and began to admire an African bush pilot named Roy Marsh. In a recent letter to a New York friend, Mrs. Hemingway described Hemingway's all-out conversion to the air age: "Poppa is so keen on scouting in the Ndege [Swahili for airplane] at 600 or something shillings a half day [about $84], which includes bumps and rolls and swooping down on the deck and wing-brushing the chulu hills, that we will shortly have no money left except for gin and cabbage...
Eartha Kitt (Victor LP). Eight songs of nostalgia, avarice and calculated mischief, with polylingual Songstress Kitt sounding equally enticing in English, Swahili, French and Turkish...
Swedish & Swahili. Pinto, who had hunted spies in World War I, had first-rate qualifications for his job. He could ask, look and listen in Dutch, Flemish, English, French, German and Italian, and also had "a competent working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Rumanian and Swahili." For places, faces and cases, Pinto's memory was tenacious: he can still remember "not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and at what time of day they arrived." Stored in his mind like a library of microfilms were detailed pictures...
Mandarin & Swahili. Beyond that tiny circle, no one paid much attention to his system. The academicians ignored him, and for a while so did his own school. It was not until the Blind and Deaf-Mute Congress of 1878 that Braille's dots won final international recognition. After that, the system began to spread-to the Mandarin of China, the Araucanian of Chile, the Swahili of East Africa, to 49 different languages...