Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magic powers, tells how even the witch doctors feared her and the crocodiles refused to attack her. When he left home to go to school, she gave him a magic brain potion to sip before he began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have not yet cut the umbilical cord binding them to traditions that were old when Stanley presumed he had met Livingstone...
...Idaho and to the ranchers of Montana's eastern plains. In lusty growth (its population has swelled by 51% since 1940), it is building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle, the U.S.'s last great stand of valuable whitepine lumber and huge mineral resources in Washington's Metaline and Idaho's Coeur d'Alene gulches and in Butte's mile-high hill...
Foul. In Pasco, Wash., the State Magistrates Association passed a resolution calling on the legislature to outlaw jail-breaking, which at present is not illegal in Washington...
...PHILIP WALBORN The Presbytery of Spokane Reardan, Wash...
RUTH NORDLUND Bellingham, Wash...