Word: powwows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nkata Bay the notables of the Thonga tribe coldly boycotted the Prime Minister's indaba (powwow). And at Mzimba, headquarters of 170,000 warlike Angonis, the sound of jungle drums rolled down from Mzimba's leopard-haunted mountains, as Mmbelwa II, paramount chief of the Angoni, said: "Your Honor, Nyasaland belongs to the Africans, not to you and your white...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers' Walter P. Reuther, and other leaders of big labor have publicly or privately expressed their disgust with the Teamsters' defiance of the Senate. This week, as united labor's executive council meets in Miami Beach for its midwinter powwow, the Fifth-Amendment issue is slated to be, as George Meany puts it, "the first order of business...
...Buena Vista) is Walt Disney's latest essay in gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing doing. After quite a few reels...
...spare his weathered mask of a face transformed by a wintry smile. "Now that Sir Winston Churchill is no longer active," said Dulles as he proposed a glowing toast, "you are the dean of the Western world." Three days later the old man sat grave-faced amid a rowdy powwow of the Oneida Indians in the student union of Wisconsin's Marquette University. "We like you to a Moses leading your people out of the wilderness," the Oneida chief said, as he crowned the old man with a war bonnet of bright feathers. "We rejoice in our hearts that...
After Stevenson's announcement came the long-planned Democratic powwow, sponsored by the national committee. Everybody was optimistic and harmonious, especially at the $100-a-plate dinner. But two mild family quarrels were noted: ¶ Facing an old and troublesome problem, he national committee worked out a face-saving compromise on the party's "loyalty oath." The meaningless new rule assumes that state Democratic organizations will place the nominees of the national convention on the state ballot under the Democratic symbol; it eliminates the old provision requiring a pledge by individual delegates. But not long after the compromise...