Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 to do with anyone outside the tribe. They fight on camels, ponies and bicycles, using guns, hatchets, swords and spears...
...intervening time, however, the University has taken an about-face in regard to the athletic situation. Although no inter-collegiate contests are being planned this summer, as many as possible will be held on schedule during the regular college term beginning in September...
...here in the nation's capital, most of the top-ranking Army officers are creditable handball players, and no national championship tournament is ever held without some of them being in enthusiastic attendance. Judging from the number of high-ranking Army officers who play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky Joe Platak defend his title will appreciate TIME'S apt comparison to Joe Louis. Both are veritible tigers...
Butcher and Bolt. It was Winston Churchill who gave Britain's Commandos their name.- After Dunkirk, when these special units were first formed, Churchill remembered his Boer War days and the Boer Commandos: irregular, ill-trained, but well-equipped bands of 300 to 400 Boers, with less regard for the niceties of war than for ambushing and killing British soldiers...
...Eastern Front below Shanghai in Chekiang Province, the need of planes was desperate. There the Jap pounded, without regard for his losses, at Kinhwa on the Hangchow-Nanchang railroad. His attack always had the support of plenty of dive-bombers. For a while the Chinese held, but in the end it was the old story...