Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Point), where he wore high heels to increase his height, his brilliance in solving strategy problems earned him the nickname "Little Moltke." From school he plunged into that prelude of World War I, the Balkan War. When war exploded throughout Europe two years later, he supported the pro-German faction in Greece so vehemently that when Greece finally chose her side, he was escorted aboard a seedy freighter and carried to Corsica as prisoner of the French...
...eyed, green-shirted Iron Guard-mystic, antiSemitic, pro-Nazi but also ferociously patriotic. When Corneliu was slain by King Carol's orders in 1938, canonized by his followers, old Ion Codreanu, then 66, felt duty bound to step from the background into active leadership of the most jingoistic faction of the Iron Guard...
John ("Barney") Bader, 29-year-old president of the local, acquiesced to the demands of the members, appointed a trial board to investigate 1) Stone's charges against Lundquist, Keppler & friends; 2) charges against Stone and his helpers that they had defamed the Lundquist faction. Principals in the fight were meanwhile suspended. Last month, 2,000 members assembled to hear the first group of the trial board's reports and pass judgment. The meeting opened with music and drum majorettes cavorting on the stage, fell into a hush when the trial board began to read a report...
...used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics). By 1938, he had swung over to the opposition camp of Wang Ching-wei. By last week, though still working for Wang, he was leader of a new faction of disgruntled Nanking politicians...
...peace at any price faction offers us death of the spirit, and the march in at any cost offers us death of the mind...