Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychologist Wolff reports that this finding was confirmed by an anthropologist studying African savages. The anthropologist photographed Kais tribesmen, who had never seen themselves in a mirror, and showed them the pictures. One tribesman, when he saw himself, screamed: "Kill this disgusting animal...
...slurring reference to the Gordon Highlanders' part in the Battle of Tamai (1884), where the Mahdi's fanatic tribesmen momentarily broke the British defensive squares...
Negro municipal employes earning $4 weekly in Pretoria recently were promised a raise to $5 under a new Government minimum-wage ruling. When the City Council objected to the raise, 2,000 natives, mostly unschooled tribesmen, held a protest meeting. Speeches got hotter and so did the natives. The natives swarmed over Pretoria's broad streets, lined with jacaranda trees, into the low, white-stoned compound buildings, smashed up furnishings and anything smashable, attacked outnumbered police who tried to stop them...
Strange objections to the Rockefeller Foundation were reported from the jungles of Colombia last week. Foundation doctors, on the trail of yellow fever, had an inexplicably hard time persuading a chief of the Goajiras Indians to permit blood tests on his tribe. Finally the chief agreed to send two tribesmen for testing. The doctors took blood samples, sent the Indians home again...
Farewell to Arms. Bedouin tribesmen, darting out of the desert, pawed over the battlefields, scampered off with bulging sacks. Among the living wreckage were those who, hopelessly cut off from supplies and reinforcements, disheartened, parched with thirst, had chosen to give up. Among these were sullen pilots of the Luftwaffe who had been flying on the Russian front only a few days before, Italians carrying knapsacks and suitcases, glad that the fighting was over. The half dead and the wounded the British loaded into trucks and carted back to the suddenly overwhelmed hospitals of Cairo...