Word: headman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaving one uniformed Israeli dead. Six nights later, Israeli units hit Falama again. They blew open its protective barbed wire and clobbered it with mortars for almost three hours in one of the biggest attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded and the village muktar (headman) killed. In violation of the armistice, the Israelis then began sending warplanes over Jordan, followed a few days later with the seizure of a vacated Arab college in no man's land. MAC officers who tried to investigate were obstructed by the Israelis...
...sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead in his bed. A white farmer, returning home to find his house a shambles, unearthed a crude Mau Mau note: "God must love you. We wanted your head." They got his headman's: it rolled over the farmer's boots when he flung open the door of the headman...
...Headman Kholodilin hovered over his group like an anxious mother hen. All conversations with the press or stagehands were filtered through the delegation's interpreter. Finally, after much speculation and two postponements, an audience which had paid steep prices for tickets (up to $8 for orchestra seats) sat down to judge Ulanova...
Peasants, who never before dreamed of going over the head of the village headman, now stomp into governors' offices with complaints, happily buttonhole parliamentary deputies on the street...
...father, the headman, is willing to go along with this old unauthorized valley custom, but Salom is not. When the lovers escape together, they find themselves bedded down forever in a blizzard...