Word: bowmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mobutu also unveiled a remarkable secret weapon in the war: pygmy power. Some 150 "expert pygmy bowmen" -as a Zaïrian official described them -were sent to Shaba to infiltrate enemy lines. The diminutive tribesmen (average height under 5 ft.) were praised by one government newspaper as "formidably efficient units who can move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could...
...kingdom may the Brahmans be intelligent and wise, the Kshatriyas brave and accomplished bowmen; may cows give large quantities of milk, the bulls carry great weight; may horses be fast and wives chaste...
Rather it is the wide, colorful butterfly version. A man can decorate his Adam's apple with anything from a variegated stripe on peau de soie to a jacquard design on woven silk. A few of the old bowmen, like Soapy Williams, have made the switch. Having turned in the skinny bows he wore as Michigan's Governor (1949-60), Williams, now a state supreme court justice, sports butterflies instead. He insists that they are "more handsome and comfortable than the other kind...
...Pleshey in Essex, solid ranks of warriors confront each other. Above the castle flies the White Rose of the House of York; across the field the wind whips the Red Rose banners of Lancaster. A flight of Lancastrian arrows reaches Yorkist ranks and the battle is on. Sweaty long-bowmen in the front lines loose their shafts; behind them, -dismounted, armored knights prepare themselves. The field is alive with cries of pain and anger and the untidy flow...