Word: tobacco
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...camel and dugout canoe, through bleak lion country and rich tobacco fields, the electorate of Bechuanaland proceeded to the polls. Some were red-faced Afrikaner farmers in sports shirts and veldskoen; others were naked Kalahari bushmen, whose ways have not changed since they learned to paint on rocks 15,000 years ago. At the polling place-in some cases a tidy brick schoolhouse, in others a thatch-roofed hut beneath a twisted mopane tree-each voter received a handful of col ored, coin-size counters representing the candidates of five political parties. Cynics called it "the tiddlywinks poll," but when...
...Texas-size, with a population of only 542,000, the country is mostly salt pan and desert, barely suitable for cattle grazing. In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco. Only a single railroad, 394 miles long, and a highway connect the north and south of the protectorate. East-west roads branch off this central spine, but typically peter out into sand within 40 or 50 miles. A few mining companies are probing Bechuanaland's deposits of manganese, copper, silver and gold...
Paroled in 1952 after serving six years, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X,* loudly acclaimed the Muslims' professed prohibitions against tobacco, alcohol and pre-or extra-marital sex. He shrugged off his sordid past on the ground that "it was all done when I was part of the white man's Christian world." In 1958, he married a Muslim Sister named Betty Shabazz before a justice of the peace in Michigan. "An old hunchbacked white devil performed the wedding," Malcolm said later, "and all of the witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty...
...deposits and tripled its operating income. Today it has 89 branches in 31 North Carolina towns and cities from the Smokies to the sea. Last year Wachovia's earnings rose 18%, almost twice the national average for banks, to $8,900,000. Wachovia serves as banker to the tobacco industry, but it also does business as varied as $1,000,000 loans to textile manufacturers and $ 100 loans to farmers...
...impression of Alexander Gerschenkron came not from the man, but from his office. In contrast to the long, cold corridors of Littauer Center, his small room was intensely human; hundreds of books covering the walls and, stacked high on the floor and chairs, along with glasses for fine wine, tobacco and pipes, two large knives, and a rifle resting on the couch. He apologized slightly for the disorder--"I've just come back from Oxford"--and he remarked, with an eye to the sleet falling outside, that Europe had been worse--all wrapped...