Word: guerilla
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...That the Generalissimo was now going to campaign against the Japanese exclusively by means of hit-and-run guerilla warfare...
...present wave of juvenile Cain-raising traced to the children living in tenements adjacent to the Houses and the Law School offers a problem which the University will do well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...
When the Revolution broke out Smith and 36 of his veteran fighters volunteered for guerilla fighting in New Jersey. Delighted by their success, Smith proposed to General Washington that a battalion of frontiersmen be recruited to fight Indian style. On the grounds that it would look undignified to have white men fighting camouflaged as Indians, Washington refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone...
...cause of Nicaraguan liberty. When American Devil Dogs came to protect the property of capitalist adventurers, he told it to the Marines with bullets, writing bloody pages in one of the most sordid chapters in American imperialism. For five years Sandino led a band of ragged followers in guerilla warfare as Supreme Chief of the Army of Defenders of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua. "God and our mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they were sure of his skill in mountain fastnesses. For five years they...
General O'Duffy was at home in the North. He was born in County Monaghan. In 1919 between guerilla skirmishes with the British, he varied his military career with the prosaic duties of an auctioneer and valuator. More important, he can handle a hurley with the best of the Republican Army. Hurlers consider his monograph, "The Ethics of Hurling," a standard authority...