Word: mohmands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land...