Word: chieftan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bolstering Ankara's stance with the timing of his comment, as well. A day later, on August 14, the Turkish army fanned over the island until its troops had hemmed in at least 40 per cent of Cyprus. Turkish officers aptly named the plan Attila, for the chieftan who had devastated the area centuries before...
...purpose of these ritual "impeachments" was both to affirm the unity of the people around the kingship and to highlight conflicts around the person of the king himself. Even when no prince or sub-chieftan actually coveted the throne, the ritual demanded that they act as if they did. Their attacks on the king were necessary to emphasize the contrast between the sanctity of the kingship and the human failings of the king. If a particular monarch was a corrupt or cruel despot, the people would not seek to overthrow the social order, but would simply replace the king with...
...hands were locked together behind his white hair to form a headrest; at the other end of his small body, his stocking feet were crossed. Terkel must have sensed the grandeur of the pose. "Do I look like one of those hoods?," he asked, thinking perhaps of some mafia chieftan...
...YORK--Police Monday questioned "known associates and connections" of Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli, reputed Mafia chieftan, who was slain Sunday in New York's 15th gangland style execution of the year...