Word: zulus
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...particularly in the ramshackle black suburbs that now ring the great white cities, tribal jealousies fester. In native townships bearing such names as Zondi, Moroka and Shantytown-from which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...
...purse out of a bulldog's ear. It will not possibly do to have Yalies parading around in coats and ties when they would prefer to wear a tee shirt and sweat pants, or perhaps a swimming suit. While we have no particular objection to giving top hats to Zulus, we see no necessity...
...some chamber of cultural commerce. Big Sur is an artists' colony near Monterey, and Henry Miller is its leading prophet and pressagent. Like all Miller's books, this one contains great jambalayas of jiggery-pokery about everything under the midnight sun, from atomic stockpiling (anti) to Zulus (pro). But the early passages about Miller at Big Sur-wuffling away at the wild waves, sitting in hot sulphur baths, dragging his groceries a mile and a half in a cart-are attractive to anyone with a notion to get away from it all. Unfortunately, into all such private Edens...
Last week, in a Pretoria prison, the gallows trap was sprung and Elifasi Msomi went to his maker. "I am satisfied," nodded Chief Manzo Iwandla, one of nine Zulus watching. "Tikoloshe did not save...
...after the platoon of servers had gone, Maria's shrieks were counterpointed by the sound of bric-a-brac smashing against the walls. Next morning Soprano Callas, leaving her summonses behind her, hopped off to Milan. Arriving in sunny Italy, she was still in high-soprano dudgeon. "Those Zulus maltreated me," she caterwauled. "But I don't care a dime what those people...