Word: insurgentes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally an interventionist wing of the pacifist Harvard Union, former College liberal group, the insurgent H.L.U. broke away from the larger organization in 1941 during a disagreement over American entry into the war.
Even the insurgent editors from Cambridge were amazed in mid-morning when they offered a bogus paper to some vendors of the "Dartmouth Pictorial" to attract customers. "Yeah, I heard about this," said one. The editors started to withdraw as their masterpiece did not even inspire a snicker.
Area by area, it appears that the outright landslide predicted by the Republicans has been exaggerated to lend a bandwagon effect. The trend is unmistakable, but it is more than doubtful whether the deluge will carry 26 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate to allow for the...
In the early days, before tractors, radios and paved rural roads, it had been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads...
But last week 2,000 insurgent Roxas followers crowded into Manila's Santa Ana Cabaret* drink beer, spout oratory in Tagalog, English and Spanish, and nominate him for the island's highest office. A few days later old line Nacionalistas held a nominating convention in Giro's...