Word: pith
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...stumbled frantically down the sloping rough to the left of the par-3 16th, through teeming mobs of Ban-Lon, Bermuda, cotton, Rayon double-knit and polyester, past the suspicious tournament marshals with the bright red shirts and the white styrofoam pith helmets, and on up to the place from which the players and their caddies had to exit the 17th green. "The man who leaves this green with the lowest score is gonna win the tournament," I said to a red-faced, red-eyed young man with a potbelly and glasses and a Budweiser flop hat who was sitting...
...humor that makes The Women such a savory pleasure is as much of a rarity as the play. Mrs. Luce's lines border on the aphoristic, but they lack the pith and elegance of fine aphorisms. Her true forte is the sniper fire of sarcasm in which one character fells another in midstep or midsentence. Many of these lines fall to the busybody superbitch played by Alexis Smith, and she is a past mistress of the lethal riposte...
...Royal Navy, with flags flying and all hands on deck, steamed out of Singapore harbor under a cover of 50 planes and helicopters. Shortly before, the British had staged their final parade at Kangaw Barracks-Royal Navy sailors in the lead, followed by Royal Marines in desert khaki and pith helmets, Royal Highland Fusiliers in tartan caps, men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery. "It is quite an occasion-an historic occasion," said Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, the last head of the British Far East Command...
...believe, is based on knowledge that is transmitted by their ancestors. In their dreams, the tribesmen may see the sugoy, their deceased "soul relatives," who live in fine dwellings among the treetops, as well as Salungal, "the owner of the mountains," who tells them where to search for palm pith and game animals...
...Tasaday have survived in their primitive state chiefly by gathering rather than growing food, by utilizing stones as scrapers, choppers and pounders, and by fashioning containers, knives and other implements out of bamboo. Their chief food is natak, the pith of wild palms. They also eat wild yams, rattan and bamboo shoots, small fish, crabs and tadpoles that they catch with their hands. Through contact with Dafal, the Tasaday have learned to trap birds in a sticky substance; civet cats, rats, monkeys and pigs are taken in primitive traps. Fires are still set by rubbing pieces of wood together...