Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chummy with Adolf Hitler (the Nazi-Soviet pact stayed in force until June, when the Nazis invaded Russia), ordered the Yugoslav Communists to confine themselves to sabotage. During these first months, Serb Colonel Draja Mihailovich, loyal to the Mon archy, fought off the Nazis. Tito set up a rival guerrilla army, eventually had 150,000 men, enough to tie down 15 Axis divisions. He proved himself the most successful guerrilla commander of World War II. At first the Western Allies supported Mihailovich, but at Winston Churchill's urging, abruptly in 1944 switched to Tito on the grounds that Tito...
...chief minister for the island colony, only 1,320 yards across the Straits of Johore from the guerrilla-war land of Malaya, would almost certainly be Laborite David Marshall, 47, a sharp, headline-grabbing lawyer who recently visited Britain to study Attlee's and Nye Bevan's methods. In colonial Singapore, one of Laborite Marshall's planks was the abolition of compulsory necktie-wearing at official functions...
Leaders of the British Labor Party assembled as somberly as admirals summoned for a gold-braid court-martial. The time had come at last to deal with Aneurin Bevan, the vat-dyed black sheep, the unregenerate guerrilla of British Socialism. "He's had it this time," said one leader grimly. "Only a miracle of the fishes could save...
Even Communists in Belgrade appeared stupefied by the mildness of the punishment, and soon the rumor was all over town that Tito himself had sent word to go easy on his old comrades-perhaps out of his own personal affection for associates of his guerrilla days, more likely because it fitted into the Marshal's desire to have the West think of him as a warmhearted chap beneath all those medals and all that bluster...
...fluffed trill in Op. O to Zzinzer's fallow tempos in Op. Posth. He predates the much-publicized hi-fi bug (who specializes in woofers, super-tweeters and push-pull amplifier circuits), but not until now has anyone tried to organize the record connoisseur's guerrilla war and set down some basic strategy...