Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hotel. Before him sat the leaders of Salisbury society, formally attired. They had raised glasses in a toast to their Queen, but nodded approvingly when he warned that they might soon be leaving her realm. Now they listened silently as Ian Smith, in the flat, nasal accent of the settler, read from the eve-of battle speech of Henry V: "That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother, and gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here...
...Schumann ("to Americanize it," says Charlie), and settled in Philadelphia. His son, also Charles, grew up and headed West to seek his fortune. When he got to Sullivan, he ran out of money, went to work as a hired hand on the farm of Major Addison McPheeters, a Scots settler who won his spurs in the Black Hawk War. Before long, Charles Shuman married the major's daughter Mary and took over the farm. They had three children, one of whom was Bliss, Charlie Shuman's father...
...blacks: "Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men wherever they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets." The colonized races are "the slaves of modern times." He defines the colonial world as a Manichaean one where the settler regards the native as the "quintessence of evil" and the native wants "to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible." The native peoples must not only riot or strike but employ skilled guerrilla techniques. Fanon argues that...
...Left. Also slated to end its life as a military installation is Fort Jay on Governors Island just half a mile off the southern tip of Manhattan. A shrewd Dutch settler purchased the island in 1637 from Indians for-accord ing to legend-two axheads, a string of beads and a few nails. Parts of Fort Jay still bear the marks of British shells from the American Revolution. Since 1946, it has been headquarters for the U.S. First Army, which is to be consolidated with the Second Army at Fort George Meade, Maryland...
...cost, your 1964 Argument Settler, just send 250, or $1.00 for five wheels (cash or check...