Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought attacks by power interests and partisan politicians; he also ignored the advice of quacking liberals, refused to cram TVA down anyone's throat. Said he: "The test of a plan is not just whether it is good for people. It is whether they will accept it." He refused to set up special experimental farms. Instead, by offering free fertilizer for the beaten soil, he persuaded thousands of farmers to experiment for themselves. TVA encouraged communities to form their own power districts. It never used its authority in attempts to compel acceptance. TVA did not destroy state boundaries...
When I and other correspondents reached the scene, a howling mob was struggling for place beside the heap of cadavers. Partisan guards vainly fired rifle and pistol shots into the air to keep the crowd back. We drove our jeep to the edge of the scene, I clambered atop the hood...
...prelude to a revolt, withdrew from the streets into their barracks. On Wednesday a general strike was called. Demonstrations against the Germans and Fascists swept through the city. That evening Mussolini, as chief of the Republican Fascist Government, and his War Minister, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, met with partisan representatives. Terms of surrender "were discussed. Mussolini cried: "The Germans have betrayed me!" Bombastically he asked for one hour's time to inform the German High Command of his displeasure...
...partisan commander known by the nom de guerre "Eduardo" dispatched ten men and an officer to "settle the matter." They found the dictator and his mistress in a cottage on a hill outside the village. When he saw his countrymen approaching, Mussolini thought they had come to liberate him. Joyfully he embraced his Petacci. When he learned that he was under arrest, his face turned yellow with fear and fury. He cried: "Let me save my life, and I'll give you an empire...
...Partisans Up. There was little resistance. Fortified positions were found abandoned. Yugoslav Partisans captured Trieste. Everywhere Italian partisan units emerged from hiding. At Milan, Genoa and many another place they forced the surrender of German garrisons before Allied troops arrived. Near Como they caught and shot Benito Mussolini (see FOREIGN NEWS...