Word: tribesmen
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...British Crown Colony of Kenya, while 3,000 coal-black tribesmen, huddled in a kraal, watched in awe, a goat was slowly beaten to death and buried alongside a virgin ewe. After that ancient rite, supposedly strong magic against evil, an official representative of the Great White Queen Across the Waters pronounced a solemn curse against the Mau-Mau. The Mau-Mau (rhymes with yoyo) is a native secret society which has lately been worrying the British. London is afraid that the Mau-Mau might plunge Britain's East African empire into guerrilla war, and turn Kenya into another...
Basuto policemen to occupy the Kgotla ground, the tribesmen reacted. Screeching and bellowing, 2,000 of them bombarded the cops with stones. When Batho himself arrived with police reinforcements, a drunken virgin bopped him on the head with a sharp-pointed stone. Sixty cops were injured, three battered to death...
...intestinal disease made him lobby from his bed. He spoke again in 1951 and 1952 in Paris. The committee invited representatives of the three tribes, but the government of South Africa refused to let them go. Scott spoke merely as the only white man the bewildered tribesmen trusted...
...intends to do good as well as be good. With David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer, he is one of the few who have penetrated the barrier of suspicion that exists between the races in Africa, and found friendship and absolute confidence on the other side. (Tribesmen call him the "Hearer," the one who listens and gathers evidence on their behalf...
...went right on being Mrs. Roosevelt. She "performed namas-kar" repeatedly, once giving some wealthy hosts the jim jams by using it to salute the footmen at dinner. She crept into native mud huts, worked an ancient spinning wheel in New Delhi, accepted a handmade revolver from Khyber Pass tribesmen, showed some Pakistani teen-agers how to dance the "Roger de Coverley." In the seven years since she has become the world's most famous widow, Mrs. Roosevelt has hardly been still a moment : kind, literal, awesomely helpful and endlessly patient, she has trotted up & down the stairways...