Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taylor, the imposing feminist whom the not so liberated Mill married two years after her first husband's death in 1849. Mill just met her in 1830, beginning 21 long and proper years of platonic intimacy. Widow of a prosperous merchant and mother of three children, this humorless firebrand longed for the Irish to stage a revolution to match France's, adding: "The Irish would, I should hope, not.be frightened but urged on by some loss of life...
...addition, Spinola announced the formation of a new security force, COP-CON (for Commando Operacional do Continente), which will have the power to intervene to maintain order. Heading COPCON will be left-leaning Brigadier General Otelo Saraiva de Carvahlho, 37, the audacious young firebrand who organized the April revolution down to the tons of red carnations that suddenly blossomed all over the country as the rebels' symbol...
More Immune. It is scandalous to Mrs. Shaw (Katherine Squire) that Andrew (Stanley Anderson), the firebrand, should have ditched his law career to be come an abstract painter. Why has Steven (Philip Charles MacKenzie), the youngest, with his odd, pervasive silence, quit work on his incisive book about modern society? Colin (Paul Collins), the brother in industrial relations, pleas es his mother mightily by announcing.a forthcoming marriage. Consider his rea son: "It's just less embarrassing to be married than...
...bring libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan once cracked...
Neither the U.S. nor any other outside force appears able-or eager-to pressure the regime into giving its people more freedom. Internally, the only potential threat to the junta lies in the army's supernationalistic younger officers, who are known as Gaddafists in honor of Firebrand Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Gaddafists now support loannidis, but they could shift, as he did against Papadopoulos. Even if they do, however, the likely outcome would be tighter rule, and the Greeks would be no nearer democracy than they have been since 1967. For the foreseeable future, democracy has been effectively...