Word: warriorism
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Last week such exploits finally caught up with the aging warrior. Grigorenko had been warned that he faced jail if he carried out his latest crusade, a trip to Tashkent to act as counsel for ten Tartars about to stand trial for anti-Soviet activities. Nevertheless, he went. He had hardly reached Tashkent last week when he was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation...
...taken to a spot near the Washington Monument, it was placed atop the horse-drawn gun carriage for the 1½-mile ride to the Capitol. Raven, a spirited black gelding, walked behind, bearing an empty saddle with boots reversed in their stirrups, an ancient salute to a fallen warrior. Some 50,000 people braved chill winds and a drizzle to watch from the sidewalks as the procession passed slowly before them...
Nixon turned tourist in Westminster Abbey, asking the height of the ceiling and pausing before the U.S. Medal of Honor awarded to Britain's Unknown Warrior. There was a brief moment of embarrassment when the Union Jack on his limousine turned out to be upside down...
...torture of prisoners in their tribes, the women were capable of incredible cruelty. When Colonel William Crawford, a friend of George Washington's, was captured in 1782, it was the Indian women who pelted him with live coals, jabbed him with burning poles and, after a warrior had torn off the prisoner's scalp with his teeth, poured a shovelful of live coals onto his exposed skull while he was still alive. Even so, says O'Meara, "beneath her streak of savagery the Indian woman frequently revealed a tenderness and compassion that touched even the casehardened trader...
That was round one. After a wait of an hour ("their train's been held up," Ivers pleaded) the second group of the evening arrived--Gilbert Moses' Chaka (the name of a great Zulu warrior-chieftain...