Word: horsetail
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...those who died in them are as palpable as the polar blizzards heralding Siberia's long winter. The cities are still cluttered with the wooden hovels of yesteryear, peasant women still do their laundry in the icy rivers, and men still wear the padded-cotton clothing of China. Horsetail Banners. But there have been vast changes as well. Under the Communists, the population of Siberia has more than doubled to nearly 19 million. The free, windswept steppes that once knew the horsetail banners and the hoofbeat thunder of Genghis Khan and his ferocious Golden Horde are now filled with...
...bodies ceremonially daubed with bright paint. They banged on drums, cheered and sang Jomo Kenyatta Is Coming Home At Last, a song especially composed for the occasion. The Burning Spear (a Kikuyu title for the bravest warrior of all) acknowledged the greeting with an imperious wave of his horsetail fly whisk, then briskly got down to the business of making peace between Kenya's two leading political parties-the K.A.D.U. and K.A.N.U.-who have been feuding interminably over who did the most to get Jomo Kenyatta released. Said Jomo. who is cautiously avoiding taking sides: "I want to thank...
...club-wielding police. Red-bereted ex-paratroopers, spoiling for a fight with the Reds who had helped spoil the Gaullist show, joined in. Angered by the jeers of leftist mobs, one group of Republican Guards in ceremonial tunics, climbed out of their bus and charged-boots clattering, sabers waving, horsetail plumes flying in the breeze...
...their musical trade, the girls are given a solid year of voice, ballet, Japanese Western dancing, English. After a year, they are graduated to the chorus (pay: 10,000 yen a month, or $27.77). The 30 stars make ten times that much. The girls wear blue jeans, sweaters, and horsetail hairdos in school, do their own housekeeping and live by a motto:'"Be pure, be right, be beautiful." Their glamorous aura of unattainableness makes them idols to millions of Japanese fans...
...agreed not to dis-kes him. Last week, as a basic trainee at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Walter was absolutely the only private in the U.S. Army with hair 37 inches long. Sikhs serving in British forces wear their hair in turbans, but Private NeHalsingh wears his locks in a horsetail down his back-an arrangement which enables him to get a steel helmet over his head. Nobody laughs. Said Sergeant John J. Quigley last week of Warrior NeHalsingh: "A good soldier if I ever...