Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...disputes with King Constantine became ever more acrimonious. When the military junta took over in April 1967, Papandreou was put under house arrest. His son Andreas, an even more active leftist, was thrown in jail and later exiled. Last Easter, when the house arrest was lifted, the old warrior responded with a typically unrepentant statement: "This year, the day of our Lord's resurrection, coincides with the anniversary of our people's crucifixion...
Humphrey is banking heavily on the expectation that even among Democrats and independents who are not wildly enthusiastic about his own candidacy, Nixon will appear the less palatable alternative. Accordingly, he is already moving to underscore Nixon's record as a "cold warrior" and a flappable politician in an era that calls for coolness...