Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born Stanley ("Davo") Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...
Balboa's approach to the Indians was based much more on kindness than that of some of his compatriots, whose favorite sport was throwing native chieftains to fierce dogs. Balboa, by wining and dining the native rulers (and taking their sisters and daughters as concubines), won over every chieftain within range...
...Akkar in the Chamber of Deputies in Beirut, and their men are duly elected. The power of the Abbouds is such, say the peasants in the villages, that their henchmen have been known to test new rifles with peasants for targets. But four years ago, Mohammed el Abboud, the chieftain's only son, dared to challenge a Lebanese as powerful as himself: Hussein el Oweini, one of the new republic's richest men and a friend of the Prime Minister. Why, Mohammed el Abboud demanded, was el Oweini permitted to buy gold at a special government rate...
Guns & Spears. At the tiny village of Chitera, Nguru tribesmen defied British authority and deposed their chieftain...
...Pittsburgh's Federal District Court last week, five more U.S. Communist leaders were found guilty of conspiring to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. For 50-year-old Steve Nelson, former C.P. chieftain in western Pennsylvania, it was the second legal blow in a little more than a year. (Last July Nelson drew a 10-to-20-year sentence for violation of the Pennsylvania Sedition Act.) For the Communist Party U.S.A., it was the sixth courtroom disaster in as many years. Since 1948, when the U.S. Government set out to prosecute the party's known leadership...