Word: swahili
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Captain Munro is a 69-year-old sea dog who retired from the Royal Navy after 30 years' service, enough action in foreign parts to become a qualified interpreter in Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili. His naval training prepared him specifically for Nessie, for during the War he devised and carried out all British harbor defense against hostile submarines. Last week his round, disappointed-looking face was brightening with hope, not for shareholders ("they may never get a return on their money"), but for the fair name of science: "It is time," said he, "that the scientific world was taking...
...woman who had been an African missionary sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" in a Swahili dialect. The three departing missionaries made speeches. Brother Moseman caused a little ripple of pious laughter when he said: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord called upon you all not to leave this ship and to come with us!" The Mennonites shook hands and kissed all around. Singing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," they marched off the Deutschland. Two hours later the three missionaries were sailing off to preach God's word to black...
...from two years in East Africa. He was going through the Grand Central here, his mind still full of scientific data, including skull measurements and the shape of crania, when he caught sight of a Redcap who seemed unmistakably to have the Semitic cast of features of the Swahili Africans. He went up to the darky and began jabbering away in Swahili, and in a couple of seconds the Redcap was down bumping his head on the floor and thrashing his arms about. It took the anthropologist two or three minutes to stop the tantrum, which he did by switching...
...hunting trip of 1909-10. Roosevelt brought him home when he came. He has recently become a Pullman porter, running to Buffalo. If you're on a train bound there, you'd better find out if your porter's name is George before you say anything in Swahili. --The New Yorker...