Word: loincloth
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...years ago. natives built a thatched chapel (capacity: 280) in the military cemetery on Guadalcanal. Then they gave it to the Americans in gratitude for driving out the Japanese. The presentation was made by a barefoot Christian native wearing a loincloth, who said: ''We have worked hard and we hope you like this church. And we pray that God will bless all of you and we hope you will pray for your friends who are lying in this cemetery. . . . Now we give this church to you. But this church no belong to you and me. This church belong...
...apelike figure. Its skin looked like dark leather; its body was covered with hard corns from tree-climbing; ringlets of kinky hair hung from its chest; fierce white teeth gleamed in its bearded face. To the woman's horror, the creature, which was dressed only in a torn loincloth, approached her with unmistakable mating gestures...
...fate of India than in the tug of war between the British Raj and such articulate Indians as Mohandas Gandhi. Now, once the excitement of the fast was over, the West was not greatly concerned about the life or death of a shriveled little man in a loincloth...
Died. Joe Knowles, 73, briefly and widely famed "nature man" of three decades ago; in Seaview, Wash. Emptyhanded, naked except for a loincloth, he entered the Maine woods for a man-v.-nature tussle in 1913, emerged two months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus...
Kanahele took a swallow and tightened up his malo [loincloth...