Word: chieftain
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...Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention, then let their rifles fall to the ground, a symbol of surrender. The ceremony was followed by an ample lunch, attended by Addi...
Saudi Arabia's Saud, only six months ago depreciated in most quarters as a well-meaning but confused desert chieftain, has become a much-sought-after man in the Arab world, and a key figure in U.S. hopes for a more stable Middle East...
...perplexing nature of the Senate, White discusses Senate committees and investigations, and hits the Senate roundly for recent violations of basic civil rights. He cites both Kefauver and McCarthy. But he also gives an example of Senate investigation at its best: The MacArthur firing hearings (run by Inner Club chieftain Richard Russell...
...jungle last month, a leader without an army, betrayed even by his mistress, Kimathi had only the memory of past power to sustain him. Despite the fact that it carried the death penalty, even the charge against him-carrying a loaded revolver-was a humiliation to a chieftain who had once ordained life and death for hundreds. His defense was a meeching plea that he was coming out of the forest to surrender when he was captured. "But he could have surrendered to a police post nearer home," one of the Kikuyu elders at the trial pointed...
...last summer all concerned were ready for a compromise. Once out of power, the Labor Party, which had originally decreed his banishment, became a champion of the young chieftain's return. At Labor's prompting, Seretse and his uncle got together again and agreed to draw up documents by which each renounced all rights to the contested throne. With this accomplished, the Tory government agreed to let both return to Bechuanaland as private citizens, with the right to help rule the land of their ancestors as two members of the governing council...