Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aileron, Maggoty. In the finals, Sonya spelled baccalaureate, saleratus and aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish...
Death of a General. Two years before that, Aléman had opened a scrubby little law office in Mexico City, and death had come to his father. The old General had broken with Strongman Obregon and turned guerrilla. For two years he held out in the jungle, until betrayed. Then, surrounded by government troops, he fought with his handful of men until ammunition ran out. With the last bullet he killed himself. In Mexico City. Miguel put his father's picture above his desk. It has been there ever since...
...insisted from the first on knowing everything about her chances, and as she listened she seemed completely undisturbed. In her long life, Martha Ellen Truman had learned to accept trouble. She could remember the guerrilla fighting which raged on the Kansas-Missouri border during the Civil War, and the day when Federal irregulars killed her family's stock and burned haystacks and barns. She had lived by the plain philosophy which she had passed on to her sons-do your best, be loyal to your friends, never forget your enemies. She saw no reason for "a lot of fuss...
...made plenty of it for Britain before and during World War II. They had plotted and carried out antiBritish riots and killings in Palestine a decade ago. Early in 1941, when Britain's war fortunes were at lowest ebb, they had sparked revolt in Iraq. A slippery guerrilla, Fawzi harassed the British for months with desert forays against their vital oil pipelines. When British fortunes turned, the Mufti and Fawzi got away separately to Germany...
Ethridge and his colleagues on the U.N. Balkan Investigating Commission were instructed to check on charges and countercharges of frontier violations, provocations, guerrilla fighting and general hell-raising along Greece's frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish...