Word: morose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Army men recalled that it was the Moros who kept on coming when struck by .38-caliber bullets, and forced the U.S. Army to change to .45 automatics. When the time came, the Moros in Lanao Province would be of invaluable assistance.
In Lanao Province on the Philippine island of Mindanao this week, 10,000 fighting Moros sharpened kris, barong, campilan, tabas and spear for a fight to the death and no mercy asked.
It was expected that many more Mohammedan Moros, each looking forward to dark-eyed harem beauties in heaven for every Christian Japanese they killed, would join as fast as they could be sworn in.
Silence lay over the islands that the Japanese had overrun. That silence was to be expected from the 600,000 Moros of the South, one of the most warlike peoples in the world, who approved U.S. rule, did not want Philippine independence, could be counted on to resist the Japanese...
The strange, superstition-ridden Moros are hard to control, harder to understand. The story goes that General John J. Pershing, when he commanded in Sulu, developed a workable formula. Once when the Moros went wild, Pershing asked their Sultan to stop them. The Sultan said it was impossible. Pershing had...