Word: fetchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...like Gandhi ... If I die, it will be because the whites have paid a black man to kill me ... I made Kasavubu head of state; now he is nothing but an outlaw. Mobutu is an imperialist, a fascist." Later he told the newsmen: "You journalists, you can go anywhere. Fetch Kasavubu. Fetch Mobutu. Tell them Lumumba challenges them to a duel!" Then Lumumba's voice fell to a mumble, and he tottered off to bed, muttering: "Tomorrow I will die with the people, I will be the people's hostage...
...most venomous attacks, though, were reserved for women. Marriage, Barnes often said, was just a cheap and wholesome substitute for prostitution. He delighted in bullying female employees into tears, embarrassed one young secretary by dictating letters to her from his steam bath, interspersing his correspondence with commands to fetch towels and turn on the shower for him. When Edith Powell, art critic for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, had some mild reservations about the Soutines in a rare public exhibit of Barnes's paintings, he wrote her a thunderous letter stating that she could never be a true art critic...
...pretty Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious about each other. But in Stockholm last week, "Ingo" surprised nearly everybody by slipping a plain gold engagement ring on Birgit's finger. Recently back from Egypt, he was asked how much Birgit would fetch on the bride market there. Replied he: "A thousand pounds and 100 camels...
...stories in this new collection deal with Whitest Africa. Some blacks do appear, but only to serve meals, provide background music or fetch and carry...