Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...syllables ya and el mean "god," and that Ya might have been the proper name of a specific deity. Naturally that brings to mind the later Hebrew names for the one God, Yahweh (Jehovah) and El (Lord). Pettinato also finds in Ebla a possible Flood story, prophets and tribal leaders whose function is reminiscent of the biblical Judges...
...seduced to join up for what would prove banal, backbreaking labor. The pay for three months: $75 and all the beans one could swallow. On the drive, there were few shootouts with warpath tribes. Most drovers were happy to pay the 50?-per-head surcharge demanded by the Choctaw tribal council for crossing their land...
...with many epochal ideas, nobody seems to remember exactly where Charlie's Angels came from. Perhaps somewhere deep in the tribal memories and seaside fantasies of Southern California. It was Goldberg who suggested, in the summer of 1974, some kind of adventure series featuring female detectives. In the first brainstorming sessions, the heroines were apparently very fierce, all leather jackets and karate chops...
...spoke on a blustery October day to an Irish throng within earshot of the border of Northern Ireland, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are engaged in tribal bloodshed. Now John Paul II, apostle of peace and justice, is himself a victim of terrorism. The killing continues in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. But if his words often go unheeded, the explosion of grief and affection as the Pope lay in a Rome hospital showed the extraordinary impact he has made, not just upon 700 million Catholics but on the world...
...brutalized East Central African country might at last begin to heal its wounds. But in the four months since he resumed the office from which Dictator Idi Amin Dada ousted him a decade ago, there has been no peace between the country's bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote's regime. In retaliation, scores of people have been murdered by both Obote's ragtag army and a sinister array...