Word: factious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, temperate General Dusan Simovich saw that his nation had reached a decisive hour. In March 1941 he had led Yugoslavia in the historic, hopeless revolt against Nazi domination. Now, from exile in London, he broke a long silence, urged his factious countrymen to unite under the Liberation banner of fighting Marshal Tito. Exhorted Dusan Simovich...
Trying to establish the identity of the culprits responsible for what it calls "one of the biggest hoaxes in American history" the Crimson states that "it might be blamed on the students who took the test and answered it factious, but it seems logical to accuse the Times itself for distributing such a poll and taking the results so seriously...
...among the suspicious. Said he: "Personal contact is rare, save for those who do not compel the Prime Minister to the fatigue of high argument; for he has reached that dizzy eminence where a request for the re-examination of his premises of action is regarded by him as factious opposition...