Word: tribalization
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Belles Toil. In Manhattan, 300 wailing, dejected gypsies saw a draftee off to camp. Gypsy "King" Steve Kaslov had tried to get him deferred, as a married man. Replied a draft official: "Selective Service is well aware that it is your tribal custom to have the women support...
...sides equally hard last week was a hot, enervating, 35-m.p.h., dust-laden, southerly wind. Arabs have named the maddening wind khamsin (which means 50) because it seems to last for 50 days. Actually it subsides in less than a week, but if it blows longer than five days, tribal law provides no punishment for distracted Arabs who slay their wives...
Major Glubb broke tribal distinctions as Lawrence never dared to do, had at least 40% of Lawrence's various tribal groups represented in his one unit. Unlike Lawrence, he worked on the Arabs' more peaceful characteristics. The Arabs' three loves-gold, rifles and raidings-were al ways satisfied by Lawrence, who had plenty of gold and rifles and whose job was to organize raids. Major Glubb had no money to spend and no rifles; his chief job was to stop raids. Typical of his peacemaking strategy was his handling during the 1937 trouble of Bedouin chiefs...
...Most of us have some pet interest we're working on," Tom remarked. "Coming from the South I've always been interested in the background of the negro and their tribal history. Thanks to the courses and professors here I'm really finding out things in this line...
...Inca Empire was a "benevolent, monolithic state, unique in American annals as the only governmental system which combined territorial expansion with the amalgamation of conquered peoples into a social whole." The Aztecs only seemed to form an Empire. They "lived in independent tribal or civic groups and created a religious art and architecture without rival in the Americas...