Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the collapse of Vera Cruz and the Western Front, the backbone of the revolution was said to have been broken. There were numerous rebe forces scattered in various parts of the country which had still to be overcome, but no serious trouble was anticipated. Future fighting will be guerilla warfare, however, and quick results were not anticipated by competent military observers...
...throwing and coercion reveal a laudable fighting spirit, but unfortunately reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...
After a long and bloody running fight of guerilla warfare, dynamiting, burning and wrecking, Eamon de Valera has at last thrown his cards upon the Free State table. How this man, often reported captured or wounded, has eluded the government's grasp so long and fought on against ever increasing odds passes comprehension. Whether his object was dictated by mere selfish ambition or by fanatical zeal, even those who have no liking for him must pay some respect to his stubborn courage. But he has now withdrawn his foreign ambassadors, proclaimed a cessation of hostilities, and produced his conditions...
...since its publication last September, the Presidents' agreement between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton has faced a ring of hostile fire. If the attacks had been made in the open, they could have been silenced as fast as they came up. But to a large degree they have formed a guerilla warfare of innuendo, of sniping from behind chimneys. The shots themselves have not been destructive, but coming apparently from nowhere, they have been successful once or twice in causing mutual suspicion in the three camps...
...about 5000. They do not like the tropical climate, and, unlike the Chinese, do not adapt themselves readily to unaccustomed conditions. Commercial supremacy, however, is their greatest desire, and doubtless they would like to seize the Islands, if the Americans withdrew. The well-known prowess of the natives in guerilla fighting would make such a conquest very difficult even if unhindered by the intervention of another power. Nevertheless, if independence were granted, it would be necessary to insure it by an international agreement. Otherwise they would be quickly snapped up by some outside power...