Word: bamboos
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...that laps the shores is slimy to the touch, glinting with an oily iridescence and dotted with tourist flotsam and jetsam of which carrier bags and lumps of polystyrene are among the least noxious. The fisherfolk who invite visitors aboard their sampan settlements with offers of rice wine or bamboo bongs also sell coral and shells stolen from the few reefs that remain. And the grenades and dynamite sticks that you see stored in the cabins below give a blunt indication of the level of respect the fishermen pay to Ha Long Bay's 1994 designation by UNESCO...
...ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west out of Babi. After an hour or two, they cut the engines and waited, bobbing in the swell of passing carriers. In the first boat, the boarders assembled their satang, lashing together lengths of bamboo; the remaining twine they used for sword belts and handcuffs. In the early hours, the Thai tanker appeared as a collection of bright lights on the horizon. The two teams waited for it to pass, slipping on their balaclavas before firing up the outboards and circling around behind. As they approached, crashing...
...started spinning around on the back seat. The minister grabbed a black sun hat and used it to encourage the lion out. It jumped at the hat and tore it to shreds. By this stage we were all getting very nervous. The lion ran into a thicket of bamboo and the minister shouted something at the lion handler who disappeared for a few moments before reappearing with, tucked under his arm in the manner of a surfboard, a dead, stuffed lion. This is the one that didn't make it, the minister told us. In fact, the live lion...
...spring of 1945, hell came to Okinawa. America was poised to invade; the Japanese Imperial Army drove locals from cave hideouts and told them to sharpen bamboo spears to kill the invading "devil army," which they warned would rape and kill without mercy. Like other Okinawans, the citizens of Katsuyama cowered in wait. What happened next was a secret villagers would bury in one of those caves until three years...
...seen change hands back in England. While those transactions had seemed sinister, this complex heating of the opium and then stoking of the pipe was appealingly ritualistic. "It's really wicked, the way you have to lie down to do it, the way the pipe is made of bamboo. You feel you're being initiated into a secret society," Sophie explains...