Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, had whipped his dervish followers into a frenzied jihad (holy war) against the Sudan's Egyptian rulers. Since Egypt was under British occupation, Britain sent solemn, Bible-reading General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon* to restore order. Instead, the fanatical dervishes bottled up the undermanned British garrison in Khartoum, hacked Gordon to death with their swords...
Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon. As the dervishes tried to cut their way out in a ferocious surge known as the Battle of Omdurman, a young cavalry officer named Winston Churchill got in the way, nearly lost his life. Dervish power was smashed...
...were also named to fill the Gordon McKay Professorships of Applied Physics and Mathematics. Leon N. Brillouin is to fill the Mathematics chair beginning next July, While Ronald W. P. King will assume his new Physics post immediately...
Describing the British people as having "matured politically" during the war years, Gordon-Walker, Parliamentary Secretary of Herbert Morrison, attributed the victory of the labour forces in 1945 to the fact that the citizens could no longer be fooled by "Conservative tricks...
Most representative political group in England today, the Labour Party, Gordon-Walker said, received a strong vote of confidence in a recent by-election...