Word: voodoos
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...vast profits from sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and indigo flowing back home. Before long, 40,000 whites were lording it over 450,000 blacks. Then one night in August 1791, the island's painfully oppressed slaves rose in bloody revolt. Armed with pitchforks, torches and machetes and chanting voodoo dirges, they massacred 2,000 French planters and their families on the western third of the island...
...schools and hospitals. F.D.R. withdrew the marines in 1934, and Haiti returned to its old ways: nine governments in 20 years, the last headed by François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 58, a onetime country physician who took office in 1957, proclaimed himself "President for life," and rules through voodoo mysticism and the strong-arm terror of his 5,000-man Tonton Macoute secret police...
...Kansas City, Athletics Owner Charles O. ("Call Me Charlie") Finley invoked his own brand of voodoo be fore his club took on the Detroit Tigers. Finley 1) rode around the bases on the back of a mule called Charlie O, 2) took possession of five monkeys, a doe, rabbits, pheasants and peafowl donated by admiring fans, and 3) produced a beauty queen to act as bat girl. The Athletics lost anyway...
...neighborhoods, each with its own trace of accent, its own numbered Main Street. Don't register surprise when you turn a corner in New York and find a different town: Walk reconstituted from the graceful spirituality of Riverside Church; you are a matter of blocks from the be-bop, voodoo jungle of Harlem. Gaze down from the tallest, plushest apartment building, and spy a slum at its feet. The very old is never far from the very new. Nor the very rich from the very poor...
...beginning had been so disreputable that not even the Chinese Communists would recognize it-appeared to be on its last legs. Food supplies were running out, and the few remaining scraps were being black-marketed at many times their normal worth. Rebel savages, hopped up by dope and voodoo spells, pillaged the city almost unchecked. And from the surrounding rebel countryside came tales of kangaroo courts that forced their victims to swallow gasoline, then sliced them open and ignited them...