Word: tribesman
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...compare a prosperous bond-salesman of the American species with an Arunta tribesman is in the sociological sense by no means derogatory. Totems are as fundamental as anything in the curious network of superstitions, contracts, and shibboleths which arise from the social intermingling of individuals. The totem in both cases rests on a fairly common basis, a kindred, actual or supposed, and its manifestations, its parades and its war cries, are equally noble or ridiculous...
...army planes circled Morocco's barren Atlas Mountains. Turbaned goumiers, the fierce Moroccan troops, scrambled through narrow ravines and over rocky ridges. Gendarmes followed police dogs straining for a scent over the mountain passes. In all, some 12,000 hunters were combing the hills for a rifle-toting tribesman who in one week had murdered seven people, wounded two others...
...last week, police thought they knew who the killer was. They recalled an incident that had occurred four days before Whitsunday in a small native village-a quarrel between a corporal in the native auxiliary troops and an ex-trooper named Amou N'Talit Tademalit, a Berber tribesman who, some said, was in love with the corporal's wife. Whatever the cause, the corporal had decided to show his contempt for Amou by treating him like a servant. Riding proudly up to his house that day, he had flung his reins at the Berber and ordered...
This year, as election time approached, a fusion party decided to upset the Whig pork barrel. The fusionists chose as their champion a sixtyish, reform-minded Kru tribesman named Dihdwo Twe (pronounced Daydaw Tooey), who at the age of 15 had hitchhiked his way to an education in the U.S. and friendship with Mark Twain. Tubman, although he has more than a political grudge against his opponent-Twe is married to Tubman's ex-wife-did not interfere with Twe's campaign. For a while it looked as if Liberia might have a real election...
...Most Rev. Joseph Kiwanuka is everything that a bishop should be. His dignity and calm inspire automatic respect, his words are simple and wise, his broad smile is warm with charity for men. But he might still be just plain Joe Kiwanuka, African tribesman, if he had not happened to be reading a book one day when a Roman Catholic missionary priest came to visit his native village...