Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgotten who it was that Alton B. Parker ran against and in what year ... or the name of Lincoln's first-term Vice President . . . you probably can use TIME'S 1964 Election Year Argument Settler. This handy wheel spins off 1,520 useful facts about United States Presidents and campaigns past and present...
While slightly larger than pocket size (seven and three-quarters inches wide), the Argument Settler is a useful gadget to carry around for consultation when you want to impress your friends or even take a little of their hard cash betting on such questions as: "Who ran for President with Adlai E. Stevenson as his vice-presidential running mate-and won!" "Which two-term Presidents kept the same Vice Presidents through both terms?" "Which Governor of what state belongs to a party other than the Democratic or Republican?" "Which four Presidents ran as Democratic Republicans?" "Who were Garret...
...around, Mba took out autocrat insurance. His bullyboys kidnaped an estimated 1,000 opposition supporters, dumped them hundreds of miles deep in the bush on election day. Even at that, anti-Mba candidates captured 53% of the popular vote. But thanks to convenient gerrymander and the 1,500 French settler votes that went almost unanimously to Mba in Libreville, his Bloc Démocratique Gabonais Party won 31 of the National Assembly's 47 seats. Immediately, a call for a general strike went up, and angry youths began gathering in Libreville's shady, bungalow-lined streets. But truckloads...
...population, 98% is African. And although the people are divided into 120 separate tribes, the majority are of Bantu stock, and all share the Swahili lingua franca. Thus, unlike neighboring Kenya and Uganda, Tanganyika has no basic conflicts between rival tribes or kingdoms, nor had it a large white-settler population to fight against independence and give rise to black Mau Mau-type terrorism. What whites there were mostly stuck to the cool, green coffee-and-banana highlands...
False Colours, therefore, may not be "top of the trees," but it is a fair sample. It is larded with arcane phrases like "tip him a settler" (knock him out), epithets like "nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second...