Word: warriorism
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...lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa, all done with the same careful skill. And outside, the museum will soon set up its most ambitious project of all: a complete fisherman's cottage brought over from Sweden, the first...
...does not like as well as Chartwell, though it is closer to the pulse of things. There he let it be known that he was not pleased with the recent foreign ministers' conference in Washington, and still wants top-level talks with the Russians. But mostly, the old warrior pondered one grave decision: Should he keep on indefinitely in office, as he had always wished? Or should he hand over his favor to his faithful friend and (nephew-in-law) Anthony Eden, while he was still able to decide the succession? Eden's own health, and the ascending...
...Turkish empire, installed Hashemites as rulers over two vast chunks of it. Thus were Jordan and Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia) brought awkwardly into the world. The grateful Hashemites have remained loyal to Britain. Until 1948, they remained loyal to each other as well. Then Jordan's Abdullah, warrior hero of World War I, defied the Arab League by annexing Arab Palestine for himself. Iraq, along with the rest of the Arab world, has been snubbing Jordan ever since...
...policy?" Tories-who seemed to respond happily only to Churchill's truculence over Egypt and not to his soft hints to Moscow-reminded their friends that Sir Winston, at 78, is determined to be known to history as Winston the Peacemaker, as well as Winston the Warrior. The old man, they say, is consumed with curiosity and eager to cross swords with "the new boy in the Kremlin" like Franklin D. Roosevelt, he is convinced that his personal authority is enough to overawe the inscrutable Russians...
...Foucauld, who died a martyr's death in French Morocco in 1916, and is now being considered for beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. The conversion of the worldly sybarite into the selfless man of God makes a dramatic biography out of an indifferently written book, The Warrior Saint, by R. V. C. (for Ronald Victor Courtenay) Bodley...