Word: powwowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribes were gathered for their annual powwow in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne. And as they met, they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions...
...with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have little following in the cities, stood up to attack British insistence on dealing with black nationalist politicians instead of "the true leaders of the people, the chiefs." Britain...
Subsequent events were almost a ritual. There was the usual nighttime powwow by the angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
...warnings from London, Smith last month called a special referendum of the colony's 90,000 white and 10,000 African voters, to be held this week. Even more ominously, he arranged to "take the opinion" of the other 3,690,000 blacks by calling an indaba, a powwow of their 622 tribal chiefs and headmen-most of them grizzled old men whose primary loyalties are to their government paychecks...
...once, Ev Dirksen was speechless. Leaving the first powwow of Illinois' Republican Convention delegates in suburban Chicago last week, he plowed head down through a crowd of newsmen, got into a car and drove off without saying a word...