Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer in control. The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized. Nomad Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss of power te the commissars. The Khambas, great shaggy men often 6 ft. tall, with leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove off the Chinese farmers sent to take over their land. To teach them a lesson...
...Sweat." At first popular only in the East, handball was taken up by the Y.M.C.A.s, got a big lift in the '30s when the Federal Government's make-work programs built hundreds of outdoor courts. Inexpensive to play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...
...learn the quick draw with this blunderbuss took a lot of practice, and the man who could fire it accurately beyond 20 ft. was rare. Nevertheless, the best of the gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted grips, lowered hammers and greased holsters-could slap leather and spill five shots, all in less than a second. (The modern record is claimed by a Denver butcher named Jim-no kin to Matt -Dillon: draw and shoot in twelve-hundredths of a second.) Most of them, besides, carried a "stingy gun" and were masters of the border shift...
...agents provocateurs, carefully drilled by Mark Mirsky to keep up a running fire of grumbles, taunts, and shouts, and to bring the audience into the play by putting the play almost into their laps; it is still an exciting moment when the slob sitting next to you in the leather jacket turns out to be a major character...
...their anxiety not to offend Peking have previously pooh-poohed rumors of trouble in Tibet, confirmed reports that tough Khamba tribesmen, who have been raiding for centuries against all intruders in Tibet, have now taken on the Reds. According to the reports, up to 8,000 of the leather-booted Khambas, swinging ancient swords on horseback, taking potshots with captured Red rifles and pushing boulders down the mountain sides onto Chinese truck convoys have gained control of a 200-square-mile area in eastern Tibet-most of the basin of the Brahmaputra River south of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa...