Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops and their anti-Hindu supporters are demanding $140 a person before letting family members leave East Pakistan. Lacking only $25 of the ransom for his wife, one man pleaded: "Beat me for the rest." They let his wife go after he was beaten on the temple with a bamboo stick until he lost...
...Laos and made parts of the trail unusable, the Communists reacted by simply moving the key supply network westward and widening it in the bargain. Thus, in recent weeks, Communist activity along the trail has been running at twice the normal rate. U.S. aerial reconnaissance has revealed piles of bamboo and mounds of gravel at many points along the route, indicating that the Communists hope to provide traction for supply trucks no matter how muddy the going gets...
...antigovernment demonstrations in the capital, during which more than 50 people died. The protesters had managed to proceed less than half a mile, however, when a skirmish line of police blocked their advance and fired off volleys of tear gas. Suddenly, as if on signal, waves of men carrying bamboo poles and clubs swooped out of gray-painted buses waiting on a nearby street, shouting "Halcones! Halcones! -Falcons! Falcons!" It was the first real show of force by the Falcons, an organization of antistudent, antileftist goons, mostly in their 20s. Their bloodcurdling war cry is likely to echo throughout Mexico...
...opium den was in a small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled...
...LAST night in Luang Prabang I ate dinner in the bamboo shack of a Lao translator I had met in the U.S. Information Service office. We ate a typical meal of tasteless "sticky rice." coated vegetables and soup. We talked about the war, the Americans and the Pathet Lao. "Do you know what Pathet Lao means?" he asked...