Word: gombos
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...knelt before him to be blessed. Others begged to touch the hem of his robe or (when he wore a uniform) the cuffs of his well-creased trousers. Six Katsinans trekked four days & nights through the jungle to glimpse the red-fezzed head of their Emir. Sergeant Gombo Gombe ("Mr. Five by Five"), fattest front-line fighter in Burma, stripped to the waist to get his rifle immaculate enough to fire a royal salute...
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