Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows well enough that General Bubnov was expelled from the Moscow School of Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education since. More important in the Dictator's eyes is the fact that Bubnov fought valiantly as a commander of guerrilla bands during the Red Revolution, swashbuckled himself into the Supreme Military Council (General Staff), and is sufficiently literate to have edited for several years the Soviet Army's propaganda magazine Red Star. Kicked out of the Ministry of Education, last week, to make room for General Bubnov, was high...
President Coolidge sent 6,000 Marines to Nicaragua and their officers told them to "Get Sandino dead or alive!" In two years of furious guerrilla fighting no one ever "got" General Augusto Calderon Sandino, though at last this slender, sallow, wild-eyed patriot was driven from Nicaragua after his men had killed 21 U. S. Marines (TIME, March 12, 1928). Last week a roving correspondent found Sandino in Yucatan, the arid Mexican state which bulges like a sand blister out into the Gulf of Mexico...
...Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that ignored his existence, gave tennis teas for English officers...
...works of the worst dramatists, in which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king and many another. In the last act one gang drops bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action...
...that Jesse E. James, a Los Angeles attorney, is the son of the late notorious Jesse James (1847-82). Lawyer James has said: "Jesse James with his brother Frank and a group of other Confederate soldiers, refused to admit defeat when the war was over, and carried on a guerrilla warfare until they were pronounced outlaws by an edict of the Government and rewards were set upon their heads. With all that has been written about father no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused him of cowardice or of breaking his word...