Word: powwowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin won an Indian war bonnet of giant eagle feathers from the Indian Confederation of America, which voted him 1941's outstanding warrior, at a Manhattan powwow. The bonnet will be shipped to Moscow on the next boat leaving for Russia...
Assembled in Tucson, Ariz, for their annual four-day powwow, 4,000 southwestern Indians held an especially big medicine council, puffed thoughtful pipes and from among 17 coal-eyed maidens picked as their presiding queen the All-American Girl-curvesome Susanne Ignacio, who not only teaches her Papago talk at the University of Arizona but can handle a horse as lithely as a Papago brave...
...Bowl, outplaying California (13-to-7), just as they had outplayed San Francisco, Oregon, Santa Clara, Washington State, Southern California, U. C. L. A., Washington, Oregon State. Amid the loudest whoops that had been heard in Palo Alto since Ernie Nevers' day, the Indians sat down to a powwow, tried to decide whom they wanted to tackle at Pasadena on New Year...
...joined Russia's radical movement in 1894 and aligned himself with the Social Democratic Party in 1898. He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903. His first contact with revolutionary bigwigs came when he attended a Party powwow in Vienna. Leon Trotsky noticed him in passing; Nikolai Lenin, who had first met him in 1905 in Finland, set him to work writing an article on the Marxist theory of governing minorities. It was in signing this article that he first used the signature "J. Stalin." "We have here...