Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Royalty Ras Imru, Haile Selassie's first cousin and Ethiopia's hardest-fighting chieftain until the Italians captured him in 1936, headed home after nearly seven years' detention in Calabria. With him went his retinue of 16 (including a woman whose neck was tattooed blue...
Treaty In Verse. U.S. troops have got along well with the Nagas, mainly through good nature and quick thinking. There was the case of Sergeant X, in charge of a remote post, who was suddenly confronted by a powerful chieftain demanding nothing less than a formal treaty guaranteeing that the Americans would not settle in Nagaland but return home...
This notice, contained in an open letter to Lewis at New York, set the stage once more for a head-on clash between WLB and the mine chieftain. That collision seemed inevitable Monday, but was temporarily averted when Lewis accepted Ickes' re-entry into the controversy at the very time the board had sought to have it out with Lewis once...
...fame reached the Argentine hinterland, where last week bands of gypsies, having elected Mihailovich honorary chieftain, were raiding cattle ranches and scrupulously setting aside their loot in an aid-to-Mihailovich fund. †"Partisans" was originally an American word for guerrilla bands in the Colonial wars between the British and French. Later it was applied to such groups as "The Green Mountain Boys" in the Revolution and to Cantrell's Guerrillas in the Civil War. Partisans were active in the Napoleonic wars and the Russian Revolution. The name now designates Communist-led and other leftist guerrillas in Europe...
Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...