Word: spearsmen
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...only survivor is Wilde. In a primitive sporting gesture, the natives free the courageous white man without clothes, weapons or water-and with ten stalwart young spearsmen poised to track him down. Hunted now, the hunter begins to run, and Prey gathers fierce momentum as a classic, single-minded epic of survival with no time out for fainthearted blondes or false heroics...
...team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where she was greeted by dancing spearsmen and was delightfully dive-bombed by an Ethiopian army plane. The bomb load was flower petals...
Even Alice Lenshina had grown alarmed at the wave of slaughter provoked by her fanatic followers. So Alice, the plump black matron who can issue her spearsmen "passports to heaven" and turn enemy bullets to water, did what any fugitive, illiterate, resurrected high priestess might be expected to do. She got in touch with her lawyer...
...this year). Ustica has few entertainments to offer them-not even movies-but it has fish-rich waters, deep blue grottoes to plumb, and long stretches of land to walk. Thoroughly pleased with the setting, the week-long International Underwater Convention stayed submerged long enough to let 24 spearsmen from seven countries compete for the underwater fishing prize, surfaced to present its annual "Golden Trident" awards to such notables as Dr. Jacques Piccard (for his underwater research) and to Sophia Loren (for being the first movie actress "to face the risks and discomforts of taking her art under water...
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