Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellagh has to do is drop his gun, and zut, he becomes a plain Arab named Mohammed. It's not hard for them." The fellagha never attack unless certain of victory. In combat with anything like equal numbers, they leave four men behind as a suicide force to protect their fleeing leader...
...striking workers for what he called "poor achievement," and threatened to confine other strikers to their dormitories for a month. Government officials swarmed over his mills, and the Labor Ministry appointed a committee to negotiate a settlement, but Boss Natsukawa's faith remained firm. "Almighty Buddha will protect me," he said. "I am not an ordinary capitalist...
...much larger and more stable barges) will always be used for permanent offshore oilfield structures. But drilling in up to at least 200 feet of water will probably be done from mobile platforms. When the well is finished, the platform will sail away, leaving only a few piles to protect the top of the well casing...
...crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw object after object into the flames-bottles to bubble when a thief is in the garden, carved wooden bowls from which to feed the gods, wanga bags to protect the traveler, love charms, colored beads, mysterious, headless dolls. Granny Holdeman was having another "burning." Granny's ceremonial burning of voodoo charms and fetishes is a potent symbol in a land where dark gods and hungry spirits sometimes seem more at home than the people themselves. Some eight years...
...proportion of their expensive French perfume to black farmers who buy a bottle of Arpege or Chanel No. 5 for Maitresse Erzulie. One of Granny's converts paid a houngan $60 (about two years' cash income) for a can of something to bury in his garden to protect his crops and family...