Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were relatively passive until late last year when a nve-year-old girl was dragged into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like...
...film which could be softened and rolled into a ball; others were microdotted, i.e., whole pages of printing were reduced on film to pinhead size. On occasions there were personal meetings, such as contacts on the 21st day of each month, when Hayhanen wore a red-striped bow tie and smoked a pipe. One time he met a former member of Russia's U.N. delegation, received information in a movie-house men's room...
Ruiz Cortines' all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) will meet in November to nominate Mexico's next President. The constitution prevents Ruiz Cortines from running again, but his will be the most important voice in choosing P.R.I.'s candidate. The dedication marathon was a semifinal bow by the President and a splendid plug for whomever P.R.I, picks as his successor...
...Richardson affair seemed to poison the whole atmosphere of the campus. Lecturer-Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox-Bow Incident) resigned in protest; other scholars charged Stout with everything from "favoritism" to "inhuman and capricious treatment," and last spring the American Association of University Professors censured the administration for violation of academic freedom and tenure. By that time, the Nevada legislature had gone out after Stout...
...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...