Word: warpath
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...much for the more or less serious candidates. Chief Burning Wood, an "honorary" Hopi with "some" Delaware blood, will soon be on the political warpath in company with his dancer wife, who performs with snakes around her neck. A Tennessee preacher promises to walk the length of New Hampshire with a camel. A more pragmatic Indian also is scheduled to walk through the state-on snowshoes. Benjamin Fernandez, a Californian who wants more private-sector loans to small business, will be on the ballot, hoping to attract New Hampshire's nearly nonexistent Hispanic vote. A maker of stuffed frogs...
...island is south of the main river channel, the U.S. decided that the land was Mexican territory. Mexico, however, refused to accept ownership. So Williams bought the island from Mexican citizens for $400,000. By his reckoning, the 19th century Mexican treaties of Iguala and Guadalupe pave the warpath for him: they give Cherokee Indians the right to establish a nation...
...autobiography, Barriers Down, former Associated Press Chief Kent Cooper described how a cartel of European press agencies controlled all the news that flowed into and out of the U.S. until well into the 1930s. "It told the world about the Indians on the warpath in the West, lynchings in the South and bizarre crimes in the North ... nothing creditable to America ever was sent," Cooper complained...
...students and young workers descended on Bologna 20,000 strong. Most were dressed in faded jeans, and T shirts or windbreakers; some had daubed their faces with paint, imitating American Indians on the warpath. They surged through the graceful colonnaded streets into the vast Piazza Maggiore for a first skirmish with their avowed enemy: the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). As the throngs approached Bologna's huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young...
...Springs, leaving day-to-day operations in the hands of Underboss Joseph Aiuppa, 69, nicknamed "Doves" because he once slaughtered hundreds of the birds while hunting in Kansas. But Aiuppa's grip is shaky?some authorities say he has no executive ability?and eager young thugs are on the warpath against the old guard. So far, they have not gone after Accardo or Aiuppa but have settled for promotion by gunfire to the Outfit's middle and upper echelons...