Word: clannishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Eeriykoot's crime carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, he got only a year, which he will spend as a handyman around the Cambridge Bay police post. His only real punishment will be separation from home. For the primitively clannish Eskimos, that alone, the government hopes, will help make aided suicide an outmoded custom...
...sense, Ambrose Metcalfe had courted death; he was a black-haired, buck-toothed gunman with insolent eyes and heavy fists and he had recklessly made enemies. Violent life and violent death had been a part of-Harlan County since clannish men with Anglo-Saxon names had settled in its isolated creeks and hollers after the Revolution...
Sandhogs-the tough, clannish men who burrow tunnels and subways under rivers and streets-don't startle easily. But a contract awarded in Baltimore last week startled them. What made them blink was the name of the successful bidder: Sam Rosoff, the world's No. 1 subway builder. The job, digging a $9 million, seven-mile-long water tunnel under Baltimore, will be Rosoff's first important contract within the U.S. since 1939. Sandhogs had thought that "Subway Sam" had finished with digging...
Seven UNRRA specialists flew from Italy to Sardinia, island of clannish shepherds and tiny donkeys. From the sky the experts saw what looked like blobs of molasses oozing over green baize. Their task was to stop the oozing-the relentless march of billions of locusts...
Unfranchised People. China's long history of governmental tyranny and clannish family life is "a handicap" to democratic practice. Neither "the common people" nor "the middle and upper classes" are familiar with "the habits of holding elections. . . . Not one member of a hsien [county] council . . . has been elected to his office by the people of the hsien...