Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass lists the African's name, birthplace, and tribal affiliation, contains his picture and serial number, has space for a receipt to prove that he has paid his taxes and to list his arrests, and unless it is signed each month by his employer, the African can be herded with the other unemployed into a native reservation...
...first, everything was relatively quiet, too, at the Sharpeville police station, 28 miles southwest of Johannesburg-but Sharpeville was soon to become a headline name the world over. Twenty police, nervously eying a growing mob of 20,000 Africans demanding to be arrested, barricaded themselves behind a 4-ft. wire-mesh fence surrounding the police station. The crowd's mood was ugly, and 130 police reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars, were rushed in. Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers zoomed within a hundred feet of the ground, buzzing the crowd in an attempt to scatter it. The Africans...
...opportunity Menzies had been awaiting. In his eight years out of power, he had given his party not only a new name-the Liberal Party-but a tight new grass-roots organization. In December 1949, responding to Menzies' cry that "a vote for Labor is a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom," Australians brought the Liberals into power in coalition with the Australian farm bloc's Country Party. Four times since, Menzies and his government have been confirmed in office...
...book's hero is Daniel Tiamat, an Irish-American newspaperman (his name is that of a doomed deity, the mother of the gods in Babylonian mythology). The book tells how Tiamat arrives at young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West...
...pukka colony (her first appearance on the tennis courts is a satiric fiasco) and his maneuvering for a promotion. There is taut melodrama involving the escape of a couple of interned Palestinian terrorists, who call Cecil "Spurgeon the Virgin" (possibly the reason why Author Griffin gave him this family name). At novel's end-complacently unaware of the tragic mess he caused, including the inadvertent killing of his wife-Cecil is scrawling a letter to his old school paper, announcing his promotion to deputy commissioner and his unfailing devotion to the school motto, "Do your best . . . and then...