Word: headman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eligible a voter had to be over 21, have eight years of schooling or an annual income of $420, or have served as a chief headman or clan leader. In the five constituencies that balloted last week, only 28,500 citizens who met the qualifications registered. The remaining five constituencies will vote in February...
...villagers. Of course, we couldn't do the interviews ourselves, so we had a team of ten University M.A.'s doing it. One of our problems was that the village women had no idea what an opinion poll was. 'Why do you want to ask me?' they said. 'The headman knows more than...
...started upward. Monsoons slowed them and they finally quit, their supplies exhausted. In the spring of 1954 the Japanese returned. They had doubled their supplies but this time their opposition was tougher. Outside Sama, angry villagers threatened them with a barrage of yak dung and stones. Manaslu, the village headman explained, was Sama's "sacred mountain," and by trying to climb it, the Japanese had angered Sama's gods. That winter, as punishment, the gods had sent an avalanche to level a 300-year-old monastery and had killed three lamas. Then had come a drought...
...Malaya, cut through the wire and attacked with machine guns. Quickly subduing the police, they forced the Home Guard commander to deliver up Kea's 35-gun armory, then looted the village of all transportable food. Just as they were about to leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected...
Wildly cheered by flag-waving crowds, a lean, leathery man in an olive-green army uniform rode triumphantly into Buenos Aires one sunny day last week to take over as President of Argentina. The new headman was General Eduardo Lonardi (see box), leader of the rebellion that brought Juan Perón tumbling down...