Word: montenegrin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...
...have reported "a huge, shining body" over Sofia, the Czechs have seen flat, multicolored disks spinning over Bratislava, and Poland's Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology has ordered a watch on all "mysterious space vehicles." UFOs have been particularly ubiquitous in Yugoslavia, whose press has gleefully recounted a Montenegrin shepherd's report of a whistling, skyscraper-high UFO, told of UFOs streaking over the Istrian port of Koper, and detailed Truck Driver Milika Scepanović's brush with two saucers on the Kovina-Ivangrad road last week...
...nonetheless told him: "Go on writing." It was cruel advice. For his efforts, Djilas was twice arrested, sentenced to nine years in solitary confinement for writing The New Class, the most devastating analysis of Communism yet published. Last year, after serving 3½ years of his term, the fiery Montenegrin was released on condition that he write nothing further about politics. Friends sadly predicted that he would not long remain on parole, for, as one Yugoslav exile put it, "his life is politics. You might as well ask him to stop breathing." Last week, incorrigibly still breathing politics, Djilas...
...century later, the war Gary saw seems primitive. It was fought over a stunning mountainous terrain, so arid and devoid of shelter that the troops were almost constantly exposed. Cannon and shells were hauled by hand to summits where only the native goats were at home, and since the Montenegrin army had no stretcher bearers, the casualties often simply crawled off to die. The troops were spectacularly brave, attacking with gusto at point-blank range and accepting decimation with stoicism bordering on indifference. Before one attack, volunteers rushed forward to blow the Turkish wire with bombs. Gary saw them advance...
...Bobotes were Montenegrin villagers from a tiny settlement near the southwestern shore of Lake Scutari (now in Albania...