Word: ubangi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution of 1911. After that, it disappeared so rapidly that no Western sociologist investigated a practice that exemplified a sadomasochistic cast of character and civilization and illustrated more drastically than the Ubangi lip what monstrous things a woman will do to make herself attractive...
...beneath the eaves. In the dry season, Lois Carlson, 36, and her two children, Wayne, 9, and Lynette, 7, would take the truck to a stream half a mile away to fetch water. At the edge of Wasolo is a leper colony whose inmates produce the best cotton in Ubangi Province. They pick the bolls clean with their teeth...
Foreign embassies had ordered all missionaries out of the north. Carlson took his family and his white nurse across the Ubangi River to the safety of the Central African Republic. But he himself returned to the hospital last September. He felt he could not desert his patients, and up to that time the rebels had not bothered doctors...
...Angeles' trial lawyer Gladys Towles Root, 58, is a one-woman courtroom spectacular. Fuchsia, fire engine and living lava are her favorite colors. Feathers and furbelows rise to Alpine proportions above her peroxide French twist. Her earrings would make a Ubangi wince, and her defense of the Sinatra kidnaping last February was equally gaudy. "The evidence," said she, "is that Frank Sinatra Jr. was running the show. How, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do you like that?" Not much they didn't, and a Los Angeles grand jury last week decided they thought Gladys a bit much...
Madame Blouin had her first flirtation with politics in her native Ubangi-Shari, then a French colony. She married a former French army officer, and when he wandered off to Guinea on a gold mining job, Madame Blouin went along, and became so enthusiastic about Sékou Touré that she became a close adviser to him, and a kind of Madame de Staël of his revolutionary movement. In time, she shifted her affections to Gizenga and the cause of Congo freedom. She gave it her all. In expensive Paris frocks she campaigned on a leftwing, anti...