Word: tribalized
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...birth of Israel was an utterly different sort of achievement. If Lindbergh was the individualist outrider of a new age, the idea of Israel was a collective vision. It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora...
...prodigal a life-style in so protected a land makes for some rich ironies. It was said that upon first receiving television sets, tribal elders would huddle in front of The Virginian and marvel that there could be so many horses in Brunei...
Nigerians were relieved that their young democracy had survived one of its most severe tests. When the military turned the country back to civilian rule in 1979, few believed that the new government would be able to cope with the intense ethnic and tribal loyalties that had spawned the military takeovers of the past. Declared Shagari after his reelection: "It is a victory for all Nigerians; it is a victory for democracy." Nigeria, he said, would remain nonaligned but "very much" tied to the West...
Victorious over the shogun's forces were a group of tribal clans, mostly from the regions of Choshu and Satsuma in southwestern Japan. Young, ambitious, aggressive, these clan leaders had no intention of really restoring imperial rule, and they themselves were to govern as a new oligarchy for the next half-century. To symbolize the change, though, they decided to move the young Emperor, Mutsuhito, out of Kyoto and into the shogun's castle at Edo, which they renamed "eastern capital": Tokyo. A British infantry unit, on guard in a new European settlement, piped the Emperor...
...that is in some areas the worst in more than two centuries. Homeowners in Johannesburg are not permitted to refill their swimming pools, while residents of Durban must now wash their clothes and nurse their flowers with bathwater. But the effects of drought are most urgent in the black tribal homelands. In Zululand, 200,000 cattle without grazing land are expected to die; 98% of the 68,000 wild donkeys in Bophuthatswana will be shot on government orders so that more pasture will be available for cattle, sheep and goats. In the Orange Free State tribal settlement area of Onverwacht...