Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen were more successful against their Mule counterparts, winning a rather easy 7-1 game marked with a hat trick by wing Mike Tyler. Other Yardling goals were by Dick Blakey, A1 Howell, Ronny Burke, and Tim Taylor...
Informed Indians believe that after Tibet, the Chinese have their eyes on the mountainous buffer state of Bhutan, a poor but contented nation, without electricity, hotels or shops, which gets a healthy subsidy from India. The only direct mule road from India to Bhutan passes through part of Tibet, and in any fighting the Bhutan army of 2,500, equipped with rifles and bows and arrows, would have only the rugged terrain to its advantage. Bhutan is ruled by a handsome, English-speaking, archery-loving young Dragon King who has freed the slaves, discouraged prostration in the royal presence...
...that we are not allowed to spend as we see fit. The money is channeled to us through uneconomical agencies that keep highly paid foreign employees and fleets of cars." The sight of U.S. housewives flitting by in outsize station wagons is apt to outrage a poor and proud mule-borne Libyan male who keeps his own wife shrouded in a baracan. Well aware of Libyan sensitivities, embassy and Air Force work hard to avoid riling the people...
...ouis (yes men). One village mayor switched sides abruptly after the brutal 1957 Melouza massacre by the F.L.N. Another convert was hardy Mohammed ben Chickh, only a year ago top sergeant in a crack F.L.N. commando outfit. Last September he rode into a French army post on a mule, explained he had grown disillusioned with the war. "We've got to put an end to this," he says, "because only then can we start building a new Algeria and recover our dignity...
Capped on a craggy knuckle of Algerian mountains penetrable only by mule trains, the village of Beni Ouagag was once the home of 3,000 Moslems. Then the Algerian war began. The F.L.N. turned Beni Ouagag into a base camp. In retaliation, the French one day in 1957 bombed the little town...