Word: chieftains
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...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...
Bell came near to developing an inferiority complex once when interviewing a Kurdish chieftain in his mud hut near the Russian border. When the tribesman asked how many wives and sons he had, Bell owned up to one of each. Said the chieftain: "That makes me twice the man you are. I have two wives and two sons." Back in his headquarters in Beirut this week, Bell is feeling better about his social status. With the arrival of the Richardson, the TIME bureau, at least, can boast of two wives...
...Pontiac Chieftain...
...alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp chieftain. The chieftain, of course, had to pass it along to some sub-chieftains and the stuff was gone before you could say jaloviina ... It is wonderful to be out in the field after so many years of peering at the world from behind a desk and through someone else...
...turns out to be fairly pleasant work. By abducting the beautiful daughter (Jody Lawrence) of a Riff chieftain on the eve of her reluctant wedding to the head of a rival tribe, the legionnaires disrupt a tribal alliance and stall the attack. Lancaster outfights and outfoxes the Arabs' desperate attempts to recapture the spitfire, while keeping his men's paws off her and taming her into submissive love...