Word: tribesman
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...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...
...Some day, perhaps soon, we tribesmen will tire of being tired, and then we will all turn to the Brother of Allah." To the Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesman, the Brother of Allah is his rifle. The warning was uttered by tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (220 Ibs.), handsome Mohamed Nasser Khan, 42, Khan of Khans, leader of southern Iran's warlike Qashqai nomads. They have always resisted attempts by a weak central government in Teheran to manage their affairs...
...Frank S. Persons II, Bastrop, La.: Church people "are worshipers of archaic patterns of thought. We have erected temples of the mind and enthroned on their altars certain banded-down ideas which we are as afraid to displace as any African tribesman his equally homemade and static wooden gods...
...heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than...
...first sentence is in the vivid pidgin of a West African tribesman, means "The sun is due for a total eclipse." The second is officialese for "We disagree...