Word: warriorism
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...after defeating King Henry III at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the ambitious French-born Earl of Leicester, summoned the barons, bishops and warrior knights of England to a national colloquy in London. To muster popular support for his cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort also took the unprecedented step of inviting each of the young nation's townships to send "two of their more discreet, lawful and trustworthy citizens or burgesses." By thus giving commoners a voice in government for the first time, Montfort, as Winston Churchill wrote, "lighted a fire never to be quenched...
Gampu leaves his native village, pursuing a man he believes to be his young daughter's killer-a defeated warrior who was told by a conniving witch doctor that he could regain power by eating the heart of a child. Before the witch doctor is brought down from his clifftop retreat and exposed as a fraud, Gampu has been clapped into a Johannesburg jail, charged with attempted murder. His friend in need, sent over by Legal Aid, is Stanley Baker, whose wife (Juliet Prowse) keeps prodding him to "care about people." Notwithstanding its bizarre and colorful appeal, Dingaka ends...
...sometimes skeptical of such vicarious participation in their pioneering and have been known to call their American brethren "alimony Jews"-willing to pay but not to live with it. The emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige in a warrior-loving world. For 20 centuries, returning to Jerusalem was only a dim hope of Jewish prayers; now that it is a material, political fact, the question arises how it will affect Jewish spirituality and the complex relations between the homeland and the Jews of the Diaspora...
Norman Vincent Peale: But you are taking all the beauty out of the relations between the sexes. Without the male warrior and the female captive princess, what joy will there...
...fits easily into the slot as Cambridge's "Happy Warrior"--too easily. Beneath the deceiving happy exterior's is one of the City's most successful and skillful politicians. At 49, he has been elected to the Council on a citywide basis five times. Twice (in 1956 and now), he has served as vice-mayor. And in the last three mayoralty elections (the mayor is elected by the nine councillors), he has personally delivered the winning vote to his long-time personal friend, Edward A. Crane...