Word: chieftain
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...Russians launched a determined effort to wipe out the rebellious Mohammedans in Sinkiang. Some 10,000 Kazaks were driven out of Barkol, high in the northeast. They fled southward. Some made their way across the frozen Himalayas to India. Some stayed to fight under the leadership of a tribal chieftain named Osman Bator who, singlehanded and armed only with outmoded equipment from China's Nationalists, declared war on the whole Soviet Union...
Twenty-four hours later, tribesmen found the Great Republic smashed to bits near the top of a 1,500-foot hill, 45 miles north-northeast of Roberts Field. A chieftain reported the find to a Lutheran missionary who directed search parties to the scene. Of the plane's 40 passengers and crew, all were dead...
...County Chieftain Lee Jong Hee presented himself to West Pointer Tandy with a request: Would the Colonel kindly give the people of Andong a new Bridge of the Rising Buddha? Said Tandy: "You supply the materials and the labor; I'll supply the engineers." Tandy assigned two crews of four G.I. engineers each. Each crew worked a twelve-hour shift. Lee supplied several hundred laborers-welders, carpenters, concrete men, a blacksmith...
...swept the bridge and the Andong fire department gave it a good hosing down. The bridge railings were festooned with strips of G.I. toilet paper dyed red, white & blue. On a wooden platform near the Andong end of the bridge sat Engineer Tandy and local dignitaries, including indefatigable County Chieftain Lee. Behind the wooden platform sat the G.I. engineers and their Korean fellow workers, each wearing in the buttonhole of his fatigue shirt the day's badge of honor-an enormous, floppy, white paper flower...
...took personal blame for the murders. Pisciotta, far from satisfied, arranged a meeting in Rome with Carabinieri Colonel Ugo Luca, whose sole assignment for two years had been to kill or capture Giuliano. The two talked long and earnestly. Then the bandit lieutenant drove to Castelvetrano, where his chieftain was hiding...