Word: chieftain
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...weapons of warfare. Their techniques are different. Hitler uses words as poison gas; Churchill uses them as a broadsword. Yet he, too, can be cunning. Last May he wrote a letter to Benito Mussolini couched in the sort of language Captain John Smith might have used to a savage chieftain...
...terribly the British & Imperial Army of the Nile, plus the R. N. and the R. A. F., had swept his country's desert fringe clear of Italians. But a man who awaited Graziani's further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their camps from airplanes, then burning the camps and villages, impressing survivors into labor gangs and conscript regiments. Seyyid Idris was one of Commander in Chief General Sir Archibald Wavell's chief...
Indicating that the decision of the CIO chieftain was motivated by a whole cluster of considerations, Nixon maintained that it was not a sell-out as it had been interpreted by some...
Replying to charges by Robert W. Harvey, the Papooses' chieftain, that Cambridge's Breakfast Table daily is resorting to subsidization, Wily Willy Tyng, the One Man Blitzkrieg of Plympton Street, stated proudly last night, "It ain't true; we're a tight little organization. The Crime never pays...
...shades, an aide hurried to Herr Hitler's coach and returned with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Armed Forces of the Reich. This was a clear indication that a war council was in progress. Before leaving Rome, Mussolini had had a long talk with his military chieftain, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who had been summoned home from Egypt and another halted invasion...