Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village of Mikofalva (pop. 1,100), 100 miles northeast of Budapest, is populated chiefly by Kelemens and Kovacses, who belong to the Paloc tribe, one of Hungary's oldest and toughest. For centuries, Kelemens and Kovacses have married only Kovacses and Kelemens, thus keeping outsiders from the village. They have not kept out Communism. The village has 250 card-holding party members. All Mikofalvians-Kelemens, Kovacses and Communists-are Roman Catholics...
...bring a moment of comfort to romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...
John P. "Stuffy" McInnis, the Crimson's new baseball coach, will assist three Boston Braves scouts and three Tribe players in a special baseball clinic for college and schoolboy coaches in Briggs Cage on February...
Brooding over this bloody scene stood the unearthly stone faces. According to native legends, they were made by a tribe called "the Long-Ears," who were eventually massacred by "the Short-Ears." According to Dr. Wolff's psychological analysis, the statues were set up to protect the souls of the dead, or to protect the volcanoes (symbolizing rebirth) from the spirit of death. The statues were carved in the crater of a volcano. Several, as if just completed, lie there still. Others lie unfinished, as if their long-eared carvers had dropped their crude tools just before being killed...
Died. Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 72, veteran South American explorer and ethnologist, who located the source of the Orinoco in Brazil and discovered the Cuiapo-Pihibi tribe in Colombia; of a heart ailment; in Huigra, Ecuador...