Word: tribalized
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...sinking his fleet in 1827. Modern Albania won its independence from Turkey in 1913, and a German princeling named William of Wied was selected by the Great Powers to be its King. William could stand Albania for only six months. Ten years later, Ahmed Bey Zogu, son of a tribal chief, successively became Prime Minister, President and then King. As King Zog, he lasted until 1939, when Mussolini invaded Albania. During the war, the Albanian underground fell under the control of the Communists led by an equally ruthless pair of partisans named Hoxha and Xoxe (pronounced Hoja...
...lands where bananas grow in wild profusion and where a golf course allows a free stroke if the ball lands in a hippo's deep hoofprint. For the British, management of the motley protectorate has always been a matter of reconciling the demands of Uganda's proud tribal rulers, the Kings of Ankole, Toro, Bunyoro, and above all of Buganda, biggest of the four...
...faddists across the country, The Twist at first was an innocent enough dance; it has since been largely discarded in favor of such refinements as "The Roach" and "The Fly." But the youngsters at the Peppermint have revived The Twist and parodied it into a replica of some ancient tribal puberty rite. The dancers scarcely ever touch each other or move their feet. Everything else, however, moves. The upper body sways forward and backward and the hips and shoulders twirl erotically, while the arms thrust in, out, up and down with the pistonlike motions of a baffled bird keeper fighting...
...remarkable, ironic letter to his brother in Sweden, Hammarskjold made clear how he felt about Khrushchev: "The big shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant 'nonCommunists' with hail and thunder and probably also locusts and other plagues traditionally favored by tribal gods...
Last week Williams wound up a 30,000-mile swing through 13 African countries. In Nyasaland. he officially received the title of honorary white chief; in the Ivory Coast he picked up a carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy...