Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such fighting as takes place consists of open guerrilla raids. Many scrubby villages do not know for weeks at a time in whose territory they...
...spent an interesting but uncomfortable and. at times, hair-raising three weeks in our hegira. As we crossed Siberia we began to hear more about the elusive guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train...
Stubborn defenders of Santander province are the dynamite-throwing Asturian miners. Up in the mountains at the beginning of the drive, the fierce Asturians carried on guerrilla warfare against the advancing rightists. The Associated Press correspondent following the Rightists cabled a vivid account of a fantastic battle on one of the fog-hung peaks...
...after this peace, Governor Murphy succeeded in settling the Reo strike, next day the Hudson Motors strike, both on the basis of the Chrysler terms. Once more quasi-peace reigned in the motor industry. But in General Motors plants, where peace was made two months ago, a sort of guerrilla labor war went on in the form of brief, "spontaneous" sit-downs. The workers' willingness to strike at the drop of a hat was best illustrated at the Oldsmobile plant. There one afternoon the day shift finished work ten minutes early. Members of the night shift found them idle...
Real hero of None Shall Look Back is Nathan Bedford Forrest, guerrilla fighter whom Lee called the best cavalry leader in either camp, though they had never met (TIME, June 22, 1931). To rescue him from the half-oblivion in which he lurks as a semiliterate, half-savage raider, Author Gordon pens many a panegyric page, sometimes lets her feminine enthusiasm get the better of military idiom, as when she speaks of Forrest's horse as being "shot out from under...