Word: derailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of Guatemala City's anti-Communist feeling that this semiprofessional campaign could so handily derail the government machine. But such diverse groups as university students, Indian market women, landowners and small businessmen have been increasingly mortified at their country's Red-splashed reputation. These anti-Communist groups, uniting to vote for Lizarralde, handed the government the first significant ballot-box rejection of its leftward trend since 1948. "In the capital, even the cobblestones are anti-Communist," explained Lizarralde. "I consider my victory a great triumph for democracy...
...death, and the details of his life, made Big Nose George something of a folk hero around Rawlins. He had made a career of shooting men and chasing women and had climaxed it by removing spikes from the Union Pacific Railroad's main line in an attempt to derail a pay train. The attempt failed. But when a posse set out after him, George and a companion named "Dutch Charley" Burris bushwhacked two of them, killed them, and also stole their horses-about as low a crime as a man could commit. Dutch Charley was lynched almost as soon...