Word: witchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Carolina, and former president of the University of North Carolina, Graham endorsed a Congressional investigation into the Ku Klux Klan. He warned, however, that this not be conducted by the Committee on Un-American Activities. "We want to be sure that the investigation doesn't turn into a witch hunt which will be turned against leaders of the civil rights movement," he said...
Batetela, the leaflets bore a message from Mama Onema, a witch doctor formerly with the Simbas but now working for Tshombe. Mama Onema warned that the Simbas' dawa (magic) was no longer effective and urged the rebels to lay down their arms, for "otherwise, you will be cursed...
Lace & Auto Jacks. When Seretse and Ruth finally returned to his tribal capital of Serowe in 1956, there was much prejudice to overcome. Being white, Ruth was suspect. Moreover, a set of twins, born two years later, seemed to spell disaster to Bamangwato witch doctors. But Ruth-often wearing a silk blouse and tight white pants-moved through the mud-hut villages dispensing good will, wiping blood from injured herdsmen with a lace handkerchief, and fighting for seven years to build a clinic. Eventually she became known as Mwa Rona (Our Mother), and the antiwhite fears of the tribesmen faded...
Long Musing. The surrogate Shaw then wrote The Troubled Air, a weakly novelized tract about witch hunting in broadcasting, and two ladies' novels, Lucy Crown and Two Weeks in Another Town. The present novel appears five years after Two Weeks in Another Town. The wait was worthwhile; it is only the novel that...
...Nina. Give her attacks of compulsive eating, because she was in a concentration camp during the war. And give Nina attacks of compulsive sex. Explain how it was, not to be able to avoid doing it with the guards. The innocence-fused-with-evil bit. Make her a sex witch, every man's dream of coy seductiveness. Men fight over her. Fighting's another basic basic. So how do we rescue Nina from her compulsions? Well, there's this dream man, a rich American, and it all comes out O.K. because his wife is frigid anyway...