Word: naga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from X Base. More than a year ago pint-sized Captain James Arthur Kehoe, onetime Kentucky tobacco farmer, sallied into the Burma jungles with a bowie knife and a sackful of cheap watches for trading (TIME, May 31). Kehoe was off to negotiate with Naga headhunters for military outposts and to survey the wild country through which the new road was to pass. Last December the engineers moved surreptitiously into rolling green tea gardens on the far eastern fringes of India's Assam Province. There they set up "X Base" near a little one-lane gravelly road which British...
Hacking its way through jungles, a rescue party is inching toward a wrecked transport plane locked in the almost uncharted Naga Hills of northern Burma. With the 19 American and Chinese survivors of the crash are a U.S. Air Forces doctor and two enlisted men, who parachuted from a rescue plane...
Mostly by "Hookum." In the months that followed Kehoe hardened himself to do five miles a day in the incredibly difficult region. He fought off attacks of malaria and dysentery, made friends with the main Naga tribes. He hiked 500 miles before getting his first two outposts established; after that it was easier...
...standard method, when he located a prospective site, was to find the local chief and begin negotiations by dangling a dollar watch before the potentate's eyes, meanwhile exclaiming "American hookum!" In Naga talk, "hookum" means magic...
Some 200,000 Nagas live in an area of about 4,000 sq. mi. They live a communal existence, share food and work (although males usually retire at the age of eight and thereafter devote themselves to mastering and using the spear, crossbow and dah, a wicked knife). They are capable though casual farmers. Some raise pigs for trade, but for eating they prefer the dog, which is bred for the Naga table...