Word: bandit
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Born. To King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan; at Kandahar, their second-biggest city, where the King was girding his forces to recapture Kabul, the Capital, from Bandit Bacha Sakao, a son (eighth child...
...nothing had happened. Next day an airplane, heavy laden, arrived at Kandahar from Kabul via Peshawar, British India; and out slumped Big Brother Inayatullah. For him were flown no royal standards. Therefore the double abdication of last week appeared as nothing more than a successful double cross to outwit Bandit Bacha Sakao, and permit King Amanullah to stage a coup d' escape...
...Governor of Sonora, Mexico, had given permission to the Fimores raid, no statement was issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood...
Juan Batista Sacasa was regarded, two years ago, as little better than a Nicaraguan bandit. Although he deemed himself the constitutional President of Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926), his Government was not recognized by the Coolidge Administration, and his repeated contentions that his party (Liberal) comprised a majority of the Nicaraguan electorate was ignored...
Captain Swagger. Starring Rod La Rocque, this unlikely story of War heroes after the War, one a German Baron, the other an amateur bandit fast becoming professional, is happily without dialog. There is some good dancing by the doublers for Swagger and his girl who are supposed to be Russian entertainers in a high-grade night club...