Word: spearing
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...will be years before tribalism is wiped out. In the midst of the independence gaiety last week, Lagos got grim word that rioting by spear-carrying Tiv tribesmen of the north had led to more than a dozen deaths and scores of injuries. Even in the capital, the regional spirit is far from dead, and much of Zik's loyalty to his eastern Ibos inevitably will remain, just as will Awolowo's to the west, and Abubakar's to the north. But this also has the advantage of discouraging the development of monolithic one-man authoritarianism...
...they left for Zululand together in 1945. Their assignment was St. Augustine's station, founded in the 1880s by an archdeacon who had earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited by a poorly trained staff of nine, seven invalids, two cows...
...father was Cambyses. "the small King of the Persians' who ruled the Three Tribes living around the settlement called Parsagard, about 250 miles west of the Persian Gulf. Under Cambyses, the Persians were a peaceable lot. They kept few slaves, dutifully paid tribute to Astyages the Spear Thrower. King of the Medes, and lived by five things: "The seed grain, the tools that plant it, the water that gives growth, the tame animals that cultivate it, and the human labor that garners its harvest...
When the National Maritime Union's boss, Sailor Joseph Curran, spent more than an hour with Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin in July, he heard, by his account, the most candid analysis yet to come from K. on the merits of the U.S. presidential candidates. Joe Curran, a spear-bearer of the Kennedy camp, at first told newsmen that Khrushchev felt that Kennedy would be a "sensible" President. But just in case the Kennedy camp was worried about Joe Curran's failure to qualify K.'s kiss-of-death remark, Curran hastened to say, a bit later...
...foremost novelist of Communist China is a Yangtze Valley scholar's son who calls himself Mao Tun. The name sounds exactly like the Chinese words for spear and shield-a combination which, according to a literary tradition 2,500 years old, signifies contradiction. Last week, as Red China's "creative workers" met in the shining new Great Hall of the People for Peking's Third National Congress of Writers and Artists, Mao Tun, 64, capped a long career as a man of contradiction...