Word: warriors
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...short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding tenaciously to a creed of activism that decrees, "With your hands carve out your destiny," he tends to be a hard-working farmer, a go-getting businessman or a fearless warrior. He has been described, with poetic license perhaps, as "the Texan of India...
Mouse meets the Fitzpatricks in Santa Barbara, complete with their Samurai-warrior fashioned son, and we meet the end of any attempt at quality. With some real acting and more subtle directing and dialogue, the Fitzpatricks could make Bad Manners a riskier Risky Business. They could, but they...
...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...