Word: mohawked
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...dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful births," succors national life at last. Broadway and region al theater flourishes; attendance at museums is the highest in history. In December the first child was born in the new homeland of a tribe of America's oldest people, the Mohawk Indians, who won a piece of state land at Ganienkeh, N.Y., after a three-year struggle. Indeed, both the nation's birth and marriage rates rose in 1977. Though serious problems persist in the U.S., a sense of well-being and restored community pervades...
...Dave Clarke the men from the Mohawk...
Washington's chief deputy is a former British lieutenant colonel of infantry who took up soldiering at the age of 15, learned six languages, once served as major general to the King of Poland, is an adopted son of a Mohawk tribe, and has lately been celebrated as a pamphleteer against the British Crown. A gaunt unkempt figure racked with gout, Lee is highly critical of other men's soldierly skills. "Booby-in-chief' was his sobriquet for one hapless general under whom he served during the French and Indian...
...since Dukakis supposedly cracked down on speeding violations, even the cops seem to drive estate wagons. Things are hidden from the Mass Pike, nicely shrubberied away, but upper New York is up front mobile homes on concrete blocks, set alone, and the decaying industrial cities like Amsterdam on the Mohawk River, where the carpet factory that bred the place is definitely not taking care of its own anymore, which shows. Outside of these towns like Herkimer and Fultonville sit grand junction-type Dutch mansions, propped-up and naked-looking, simple and sensible roosts for burghers long dead, and often...
Slow Judgment. The trial of John Hill (part Mohawk Indian) and Charley Joe Pernasilice (part Catawba) for murder and attempted murder was about to end, concluding a chapter of the American tragedy called Attica. But the end was slow in coming. It took three days of lengthy deliberations before Jury Forewoman Rosa Moore, one of two blacks on the panel, finally announced the verdict on Saturday night. Hill was found guilty of murder. Pernasilice was found guilty of second degree attempted assault. The men's lawyers promised to appeal...