Word: morose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting...
Frank Laubach. He first used it in the Philippines, where he was a missionary of the Congregational Christian Churches; Dr. Laubach performed what could well be described as a miracle in giving the Moros an alphabet and teaching them to read & write. There, the each-one-teach-one technique was...
He is many habits and many peoples-ranging from the G-stringed, pygmy Negritos and the smart, West-dressed Christian Tagalogs of Luzon, the Visayans of the middle islands, to the self-sufficient, sometimes savage Mohammedan Moros of equatorial Mindanao. He speaks a bit of English, a bit of Spanish...
In Mindanao, the unmanageable Moros ignore Manila, as usual. Without forceful persuasion, perhaps 80% of the population could never be made to dream of anything but siesta, fiesta and sunsets.
In 1899 William George Rolph, visiting in Philadelphia, heard of trouble in the Philippines. He postponed his return to his home in London, joined the U.S. Army, saw action in Panay, then fought the Moros in Mindanao.