Word: underworld
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Most of the conflicts, in one way or another, grow out of a commitment to the land. Despite anthropologists' evidence that they came to this country across the Bering Strait land bridge, many tribes believe their ancestors emerged from an underworld through a hole in the earth known as the sipapu. Their religion, their art and their well-being are tied to the land they have guarded and revered. Now, many generations after white settlers bribed, swindled and threatened thousands of Native Americans out of millions of acres, they are determined to seek restitution...
...KRAYS. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play. In the 1960s these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's docudrama underscores the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays...
This is not to say drugs are not a major problem here as well. Among the largest cash crops in California, marijuana garners its own circles of underworld figures and exploiters...
...wailing. The din itself told a story: the mobilization of the forces of good against those of evil; a climactic conflict; finally, the removal of the dead and wounded. Then a stentorian voice blared an all-points bulletin: "Calling the G-men! Calling all Americans to war on the underworld...
...KRAYS. In the 1950s and '60s, these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's brisk docudrama understands the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play...