Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian troops to do their work. With far less aid than the Greek government had from the U.S., they had not only held out in their crags but had grown in numbers and vigor. In two years they had multiplied tenfold. They had raided and ravaged, living a hard mountain life unsolaced by Athenian cafés. A motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope...
...Mountain Birds. At that time Markos had perhaps 2,500 armed followers in bands scattered about Greece. Within a year the number had grown to 8,000. Now he has 25,000. The hard core and leadership are Communist. But the KKE (pronounced coo-coo-ay) seldom admits that it controls the guerrillas, and refers to them as a "democratic force fighting against monarcho-fascists." Last year one member of the Greek Politburo earned a sharp rebuke from his comrades by boasting that "KKE has birds which sing in the mountains...
Ulatistas had plenty of fight. "Nada nos atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...
...creates an impressionistic mood ranging from a style resembling Renaissance Church music to modern syncopation. Its close, a complicated fugue which is resolved into a unison crescendo, was somewhat disappointing. The earlier black and white differentiation between the righteous and the wicked was lost in the final phrase, "the mountain of the Lord...
...into a makeshift courtroom. Fenced in by a net of chicken wire, 128 rebel prisoners, captured after the shelling of Salonika last month, hunched together in close-packed seats. The judges, nine army officers, sat on the stage. Around them was stacked the evidence: rifles, machine guns, grenades. A mountain howitzer poked its muzzle out beside a grand piano...