Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarrelsome minority groups; 2) Moslem nationalist leaders insist on a unified Syria, instead of two independent states; 3) Turks in the Antioch-Alex-andretta Sanjak, near the Turkish border, demand the creation of a third independent state (TIME, Feb. 15 et ante); 4) Moslem Kurds seize every opportunity to raid Christian villages in the northeast; 5) fierce Druse tribesmen make periodic pillages in the fertile valleys of Lebanon...
...living as head of a band of White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid on the Soviet consulate in Tientsin. Peiping's alarm was caused by a new report that he was on his way to raid the Soviet's Peiping Embassy...
Once in the War of 1812 he ran 60 miles in a day to warn settlers of an Indian raid. Finally, at 72, he wandered to Fort Wayne, Ind. At a settler's house near there, after hiking 20 miles, he lay down on the hearth to rise no more...
...early youth he was familiar with horses, guns and gold mining. He mined gold with Cecil Rhodes, became an intimate of rulers and statesmen, a contented and hale old man in his last years. But his life once hung by a thread when, after the failure of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, Hammond was sentenced to death by the Boers for conspiracy. The sentence was commuted and he got off with a fine...
...army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...