Word: ngai
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...Rose, the father of two small daughters who live with their mother in Hong Kong, last month accompanied a South Viet Nam Cabinet Minister on a trip up the country's coastline from Saigon. The twin-engined C-47 had just taken off from the airstrip at Quang Ngai, 300 miles north of Saigon, when it crashed after engine failure. Forty-one persons aboard died, including the Cabinet Minister and Jerry Rose...
Tree That Sheltered. Two days later, the Vietnamese went on the offensive. Flying from Saigon before dawn, 16 U.S. Army helicopters picked up a Vietnamese battalion. Their orders: to surprise 200 guerrillas that intelligence reports had located in the village of Cai Ngai, a Communist stronghold on the southeast tip of Viet Nam. Already in the area, concentrated in the Mekong Delta, were 1,500 government troops searching for the enemy in the mangrove swamps and inlets along the South China...
...Kikuyu are a people of dark and mystical dreams whose legend relates that when Ngai (God) first divided up the world, he held Kenya in such affection that he kept Mount Kenya as his favorite resting place. He told Gikuyu, the first Kikuyu, that if difficulty ever arose, Gikuyu should make a sacrifice and raise a hand toward Mount Kenya, and Ngai would help. Not far away, under a fig tree, Gikuyu found a beautiful woman, Moombi, to be mother of the Kikuyu race. Later, when their nine beautiful daughters needed husbands, Gikuyu sacrificed a lamb and a kid under...