Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon State, no charges of Communist Party membership had been made. Spitzer, a brilliant, fidgety man of 30, had been an active campaigner for Henry Wallace; his wife, an Oregon State student, was the firebrand of the campus Young Progressives organization. La Vallee, too, was a Wallaceite. Some students thought he was "pretty radical" in his economics classes, but he still taught his subject from standard texts. As for Spitzer, he had stuck pretty close to chemistry...
...there has been none. The British built a fortress at Ramzak and managed to enforce a semblance of order by punitive expeditions and judicious bribery. But the Wazir chieftain, the Fakir of Ipi, also known as "the Firebrand,"kept a holy war going against the British. Every year, when the tribesmen drove their sheep into Kashmir to graze, the British actually induced them to check their weapons at collection centers. Theoretically, the new state of Pakistan was to take over Fort Ramzak and the Waziristan problem. Pakistan had neither the money nor the enlightened stubbornness to cope with them. Tribesmen...
Example. In London, the British Anti-Woman Society (which deplores woman's effect on industry and men's morals) was shaken to its foundations when its 32-year-old firebrand president, Fred Wormull, was discovered meekly doing the dishes; he admitted that he had been married for the last two months...
Visitors to Mexico City's National Bellas Artes gallery last week saw a mountain of modern Mexican painting. Except for the work of one artist, the mountain was close to being an extinct volcano. But inextinguishable firebrand David Alfaro Siqueiros had summoned up enough live steam and hot lava to make plenty of activity...
Died. James ("Jimmy") Maxton, 61, firebrand leader for 19 years of the tiny Independent Labor Party in Britain's House of Commons, variously known as "most popular M.P.," "the Wild Man from the Clyde" and "the Rebel without an Enemy," brilliant Socialist prophet and author (If I were Dictator); after long illness; in Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value...