Word: headdressed
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...that major hostilities haven't exactly ceased, it looks as if I'm headed for mothballs. I'll be lucky if I end up at the Smithsonian next to Calvin Coolidge's Indian headdress...
...then, that’s not the point. The point is that in Cairo even some of the Bedouins don’t seem real, not when they are hawking “Halloween headdresses” (the name these salesmen coined for the traditional Arab headdress...
...does, those terrorists who believe with a religious conviction that the lives of Americans and their friends are fair game will continue their unending war. These days, when Scott Schlageter leaves al-Jadawel for a spin in his car, he wears a white shirt and a red-checked Arab headdress. That way, he hopes, nobody will mistake him for an infidel. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Casablanca, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur, Scott Macleod/Riyadh and Tim McGirk/Tehran
...left the gathering the sheik heard mutterings from young men and responded with, what to us seemed a baffling and melodramatic temper tantrum, casting his headdress on the ground, covering his head with ashes from an outside grill while the dismayed young men rushed to reassure him. My interpreter later explained that the youths said they should kill the foreigners, Kurdish interpreter included, rather than ask for their help. Unaware of this at the time, we headed for the Tikrit bridge with a negotiator from the tribe. I stayed with the man whose name I have lost, while he talked...
...before long, the acclaimed director was enveloped in a golden headdress and a brassiere...