Word: zambezi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 26 Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Operation Noah's Ark - the res cue of African game along the rising Zambezi River...
...from Southern Rhodesia. Many predicted the end of federation. But this was no answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa might be split between African and white at the Zambezi River, with ominous consequences. Was it too late to arrest the trend? In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet, without seeking Welensky's advice-and, as it turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert...
Back from three months in Africa, a pair of intrepid Britons reported in with the news that the good name of Physician-Explorer David Livingstone is still to be found in the Dark Continent. While tracing Livingstone's paddle up the sluggish Zambezi (made a century ago), Voyagers Quentin Keynes, 34, nephew of the late Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...African saying. Last week, in the dead of Southern Rhodesia's cool, dry winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail and rain swept across the rolling hills of light brown grass. That day citizens of Southern Rhodesia, going to the polls from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, voted Garfield Todd, their Prime Minister for five years until last February, into political oblivion. His United Rhodesia Party, upholding the zeal for racial "partnership" that earned him the name of "Kaffir lover" and cost him his office, failed to win a single seat...
...tiered bastions of some huge island fortress. Its rivers meander in wide swings and detours on their path to the sea, now rushing at breakneck speed through some narrow gorge, now cascading in a sheer drop of 350 ft. or more to the level below as does the Zambezi at Victoria Falls, now widening their banks to flow in lazy indolence over the flat plateau in depths too shallow for navigation...