Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist press is not alone in noting the change-the eager women of the militia, the emaciated girls toiling in the communes as if possessed. To some recent foreign travelers to Communist China, the most striking thing about the women is the pleasure they take in power: they are the real militants of the new order...
...Congressmen railroaded measures through Congress. Whenever there was opposition, A.D. masses, usually led by left-wingers, would jam the Plaza El Silencio and scream hatred at their enemies. By the end of 1948, when rumors began circulating that A.D. was planning to replace the army with a "peasants' militia," Pérez Jiménez and his brother officers rebelled. They cut down A.D. in mid-reform, arrested Gallegos, hounded Betancourt into exile, and began a new and bloody military dictatorship...
...senate, Republican P. Kenneth Peterson is mayor of Minneapolis, D.F.L. strength has gradually drained away for the past year, Humphrey's own plurality was cut 81,119 votes in 1954. Governor Orville Freeman is under steady Republican drumfire for raising personal property taxes and for calling out the militia in the recent strike at the Wilson & Co. packing plant in Albert Lea. He faces his toughest fight in his campaign for an unprecedented fourth term as Governor this year. "These guys are right out of the halls of theory." growls Viehman. "We need to get these daydreamers...
...winning everywhere," declared one insurgent in the khaki uniform of the territorial militia. "We don't give a damn for politics...