Word: insurrectionists
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...adopted Herod as their vassal King. Although hated by Orthodox Jews as a Hellenistic idolater, Herod expanded the Temple and adorned it with marble and gold. It was still standing, one of the wonders of the ancient world, when the Roman procurator Pilate condemned Jesus to death as an insurrectionist and ordered him crucified on Calvary Hill...
...Butler measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there and the man who survived to wear the crown. Har old, he says, had little chance to lay his hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive resistance- "a campaign...
...scanted and most of Christ's miracles-certainly the most dramatic moments of his ministry-are inexplicably omitted. The time thus saved is devoted to two bombinating battles that never actually took place; to a wildly unhistorical subplot that exaggerates Barabbas (vaguely identified by the Bible as an insurrectionist) into a sort of George Washington of the Jews, and makes Judas merely a bewildered Benedict Arnold; to a number of incidents in the life of Christ -among them a dramatic death-cell confrontation with John the Baptist-that are nowhere sanctioned by scripture and invariably ring false...
Siege. O'Brien, 43, an intense Irishman with literary leanings (he is noted for a study of Irish Insurrectionist Charles Stewart Parnell) had badly misjudged Moise Tshombe, the strength of his gendarmerie, and above all their determination to fight for Katanga's independence. After the announcement, the central government in Léopoldville named Egide Bocheley as Katanga's "High Commissioner" to replace Tshombe. Bocheley, a follower of far-left Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga, flew off for Elisabethville. When his plane landed, it was not safe for him to leave the airport, and he spent the night...
...final image is an evocation of the inevitability of death for Polish heroes as interpreted by Andrzej Wajda, who also directed this film. The insurrectionist leader (Wieczyslaw Glinski) pokes his grimy head through a manhole, headed toward freedom. But when he hears from his sergeant that the men he thought were close behind have gone astray, he kills the sergeant as a betrayer and slowly descends once more into the offal that seals his doom...