Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Salau was born about 42 years ago on densely wooded Vella Lavella, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons group. His mother had been captured by his father's head-hunting tribe in a raid on another island. ("My people heathen, you know-killing one another.") When the Adventists set up a school in the beach village, young Salau ran away from home to join, and eventually became a pastor. Now, he estimates he has had a hand, in converting some 2,000 natives in the Pacific islands. Says Salau...
...Vegas, Nev., which advertises "Fun in the Sun" for tourists, a tribe of New Mexican Jemez Indians put on a rain dance. Next day the rains came...
...were sure the police weren't looking -and Low is convinced that American prestige is still high there. It was much the same in the purple mountains of Northern Iran on the Soviet frontier, where Low spent some time last summer with a Kurdish chieftain of the Shikakki tribe, listening to a portable radio churning Russian-sponsored incitements to revolt while the chief conveyed his high regard for Americans and obviously meant...
...despairing of quiet, picked up the paper and found himself reading the sports section. Then the Great Thing happened. It was a small headline: "Tribe, Sox Head South for Pre-Season Training." Very quietly he picked up a shattered half-ski and hefted it; cocking his wrists, he saw little white balls, not flakes, bouncing off the left field wall...
...Casey (The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock) summarized what much of the Irish press said of him and his works. Absolutely correct, agrees O'Casey-and proud of it. He promises to spend his whole life wearing "the tattered badge of [his proletarian] tribe . . . soiled with the diseased sweat of the tenements...