Word: pocked
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...only 34, a little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing...
Their turbaned Pir believes that he is the pock-marked man of ancient prophecy who is to become King of Sind. He has no recognized relatives, and indeed recognition would be difficult, since the Hurs share each other's wives, sisters and daughters. But Pir of Pagaro has sons, and he once nearly killed one who came before him barefooted...
...spring campaign. Over the continent the weather had lain thick, and for a week Britain's long-range bombers had squatted glumly in their dispersal stations with no place to go. Handier ships-light bombers and pursuits-went out whenever there was a break. They picked at the pock-marked townson the invasion coast, ranged east to the Frisians off the Netherlands' coast, where they scratched a convoy and lost five planes...
...Homely, pock-marked little Pedro Aguirre Cerda won his nickname Don Tinto from the tinto (red wine) squeezed from his prosperous vineyards. Friends of the rotos (ragged ones), his Popular Front took control of Chile away from the other haciendados and big businessmen two years ago, made rich Don Tinto President. Last week Chile's rotos showed their approval, voted his man, Aurelio Cruzat, to victory in a Senatorial by-election...
...there was still plenty of evidence for the direct Channel attack. Big guns were not rolled up to Boulogne and other points to pock the barren cliffs of Kent; they were probably there to protect a landing. The Luftwaffe was very definitely still trying to knock out coastal airports to push back fighter resistance...