Word: nomad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...William Hensley, 38, an Eskimo, grew up in northwest Alaska living as a nomad. After catching the attention of teachers in the town of Kotzebue, he boldly set out for the nation's capital, where he got a degree in political science from George Washington University. In 1966 Hensley returned to Alaska to lead the struggle for native rights. As a state legislator, he flew to Washington more than 100 times to help keep the land claims issue before Congress. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that gave Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts nearly $1 billion...
...film will come out. In Burma, the Duke's picture hangs in a corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back in the U.S.. a South African tourist asks me if I know that John Wayne is dead. He heard the news from a Frenchman...
Very few have seen Harvard play hockey. This is the Nomad Year. The Crimson plays all its games outside of Cambridge this season, eight of them at "home" in Walter Brown Arena. B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena. Sigh...
...child in Republican Noblesville, Ind., are the thumping defeats suffered by his Democratic relatives in campaigns for local of fice. After majoring in government at Dartmouth ('63) and spending two years in the Peace Corps building latrines and wells for Guatemalan villagers, Kraft became a kind of political nomad: to Washington for a time as a Peace Corps recruiter, to Mexico with the 1968 Olympics committee, to California for a bit part in Jesse Unruh's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, back to Indiana to manage a losing congressional race, off to the West as a roving Democratic fund raiser...
...rule and unite it with Somalia, whose President, Siad Barre, is a son of the Ogaden. The front claims that it could raise an army of 400,000-roughly the size of the Ogaden's population-if only it had the weapons, and that is probably true. Every nomad seems to carry a rock, a club or a knife. Some have antiquated rifles, and a few proudly display Soviet-made automatic weapons. They are dressed in rags for the most part, but are highly motivated. Reports TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited the fighting zone this month...