Taai

Specialist al-Taai was born in Iraq and has a wife and relatives there.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2006 2006

U.S. and Iraqi security forces have stage nearly 40 raids, looking for al-Taai.

CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006 2006

So, on this one night in history, the music of another tribe had come to Taai.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

What advantage will it do you here in the island of Taai?

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

There's no other amusement in an islet like Taai but the interminable native dance.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

U.S.A., the real and personal property of the trading station at Taai, and "signed" in the identical, upright, Fourteenth Street grammar-school script, by "the Dutchman."

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

I give you my word, when at noon of the thirteenth day the mountain of Taai stood up once more beyond the bows,

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Taai did this woman come; one saw that; not from any near island or group.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

-- For the trader of Taai, the blatantly obvious proprietor of the island's industry and overlord of its destinies -- sitting there before me now with a pump gun touching his elbow -- was this fellow

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

When I went ashore in mid afternoon, wondering a little why no naked biscuit-beggars or gin swallowers had swum out to bother me that day, I found the trader of Taai sitting on his veranda, blowing puffs of smoke from those fine Manila Club perfectos out into the sunshine.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915