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Word: veld (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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December lived up to its Swazi name: "the time to pick teeth for a harvest." The veld lay parched in the midsummer sun. Hillsides and grasslands rotted rustily. Scorching winds raised dust from the river beds. By January even the mighty Orange had shrunk to a feeble trickle. A throttling drought gripped South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Rain | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...week's end, Prime Minister Smuts was taking long walks on the veld around his farm near Pretoria. For him the question was whether to veto Natal's ordinance by an Act of Parliament and rock his Government, or let the ordinance stand and perhaps rock the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Offensive Objectionable | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...white hair and beard have thinned; the furrows of nigh 74 years line the veld-weathered face that Frans Hals might have painted. But the pale blue eyes are tirelessly alert. The thinning figure, rather gaunt now, slippered and with a trace of a stoop, moves briskly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Holist from the Transvaal | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...that his Boer War days were his happiest. He came out of them 30 pounds heavier, transformed from a bookish lawyer into a hardened leader of men. On their tough Basuto ponies, he and his tough commando (guerrilla) column made a record march (700 miles in five weeks) across veld and mountain. They repeatedly outwitted Lord Kitchener's proud British Army, which Winston Churchill was covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through it all, yellow-bearded, slouch-hatted Commandant-General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Holist from the Transvaal | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...wayside stations they smashed windows of other trains, broke open fruit trucks, shattered hotel windows, damaged shop fronts, plastered white civilians with whatever their hooch-hot hands could find to throw. Near the Touws River junction, where locomotives are changed, the switch had to be made in the open veld: the crew was afraid to take the train into the station. As a train from the Orange Free State passed by, the mulattoes smashed long rows of its carriage windows with bottles and fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Incident on the Veld | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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