Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon...
Cornered Man. Seattle-born Heinie Faust actually knew little about the West, wrote about tropical isles without having been near them. A massive man with a long, chiseled face, his appetites for work and living were enormous. He could lock himself in a hotel room with two typewriters and a bottle of Irish whiskey, emerge four days later with a neatly typed, complete magazine serial. Faust's explanation of his capacities: "No one is more than 40 to 50% efficient, but when a man is backed into a corner by a man who intends to kill...
...International House Valsa was not missed for more than 24 hours. Then Pritha Kumarappa, an Indian, and Salma Bishlawy, an Egyptian, Valsa's two closest girl friends, went to her room. The key was in the outside lock. The bed was turned down neatly. It had not been slept in. Her room and her clothes were in order; even her purse was there, with lipstick, identification cards and $17 in cash...
Saddest of all in food-loving, fun-loving Manipur today are the maids of marriageable age. When no war threatens and the moon is right, custom lets them waylay young men, strip and hold them until they pay the price demanded. If the victim demurs, they may lock him up until he changes his mind. When next the moon is right, no men will be on hand to play-if they heed the Maharaja's call...
...wives do not lock the bathroom door while bathing, but of those who do, nearly half lock it even when no one else is home...