Word: warriorism
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...gargoyles, the heads are covered with the distinctive Maori designs used as tattoos. The slanty, abalone-shell eyes are as impenetrable as mirrors. Sometimes a broad-based tongue juts out in the Maori gesture of raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy's temple and then to lift off the top of his skull...
...recorded in I Samuel 25:22, David is enraged that his messengers have been rebuffed by a wealthy man; the warrior swears murderous vengeance on this household and, among its inhabitants, on "any that pisseth against the wall." Luckily for the guilty, David's wrath is shunted aside by Abigail. God Knows where he might have turned next. -By Paul Gray...
Curiously, the she-soldiers seemed to have aroused the least disapproval in the male. The Calvinist Lady Ann Cunningham was a formidable warrior for Scotland, riding at the head of a troop of horses with a case of pistols attached to her saddle and daggers at her girdle. It was the "learned woman" that terrified both the learned and unlearned men around her. The prevailing opinion, according to the 17th century writer Hannah Woolley, found that a woman was "learned ... enough if she can distinguish her Husband's bed from another...
...boxing matches, where fighting any American must be a bloodcurdling prospect, few opponents have been blatantly rooted against. When Gymnast Koji Gushiken of Japan edged Peter Vidmar by 25 one-thousandths of a point in the all-around competition, and Gushiken cried the tears of a 27-year-old warrior who had been holding fast with more than chalk, not even Vidmar seemed to mind. The U.S. exhibition baseball team was able to square accounts (2-1) with those Taiwanese Little Leaguers, all grown up, without excessive jingoism at Dodger Stadium. Swivel-hipped Mexican Walker Ernesto Canto pleased everyone...
...just one momentary scare: a security guard aboard an athletes' shuttle bus radioed that they were being followed by a suspicious car. In swooped the highway patrol and a sheriffs helicopter. The lawmen arrested a man, who explained his cache of weapons and explosives by describing himself as "a warrior of the people" and voluntary protector of the athletes. He was held for psychiatric evaluation...