Word: antimonarchist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water-pumping jeeps. By that time some 2,000 law-school students had been joined by 1,000 allies from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins: "We don't want an idiot king who doesn't know how to govern." The anti-Falangist students countered with chants of "S.E.U. no! Falange...
...English army. Following the 18th Century wars as avidly as some men chase fires, he became a colonel in the Portuguese army, a major general in the Polish army, even offered his military services to Catherine the Great, but she passed him up.* A venomous antimonarchist at home, he railed against that "reptile" and "dolt," George III. In 1773 he left England for good...
...which his family had bossed for 104 years. Promised reforms: 1) equal representation in the cabinet for the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party; 2) election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution; 3) amnesty for political prisoners. Rana gave in mostly because of pressure from India whose antimonarchist leaders had backed the King's cause. When he returned to Nepal, King Tribhubana would also take back some new dance steps he had learned in New Delhi nightspots...