Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considered a man of distinction among the U.S. brotherhood of fixers, shady dealers and influence peddlers, it has become virtually mandatory to be tapped for contempt of Congress. Last week two more big-name members of the tribe were sporting their lodge emblems...
Lemuel Gulliver, a great traveler, once came upon a nation of horses called Houyhnhnms (pronounced, with a whinny, who-in-ums), who were gifted with sound reason and a noble spirit, and ruled benevolently over an unprepossessing tribe of humans called yahoos. A British stable owner named Frank Coton felt he had a near-Houyhnhnm in his eight-year-old gelding, Black Diamond. One day last week, he led Black Diamond clopping into a Nottingham movie theater (which had been cleared of yahoos); the horse, perspiring heavily, watched as a newsreel of 1952's Grand National Steeplechase...
Back in 1948 Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief-designate of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, married a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. At first the tribal elders were outraged, but later, after tribal council, they accepted Seretse and his white wife. But not Uncle Tshekedi, who had acted as tribal regent during Seretse's minority. He asked the British High Commissioner for a judicial inquiry into Seretse's fitness to rule. The British found that Seretse, by marrying without consulting his tribe had, like Britain's own Edward VIII, failed in his public duty. They banished...
...Conservatives carried the debate, which would permanently keep him from ruling his native tribe, Seretse Khama quietly left the visitors' gallery, went home to his wife & child through London's chilly streets...
...tree was so loaded with vines that it looked like a green igloo. He climbed to the top and fell through with a crash. The mound was hollow and dark inside, and full of squeaking bats. A great peace of soul descended over Dubkin; he had found a tribe of gay little friends, and he had also found a much-needed refuge from his widowed, too-possessive mother...