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Word: rebel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bluff their way through situations that would stagger a master strategist. As the Anchor liner California docked at Manhattan last week her Thomas Cook conducted passengers effervesced with triumph at having visited on their Mediterranean cruise a city which was at the time beseiged by some 2,000 rebel tribesmen-Damascus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dauntless Tourists | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

French-censored cables from Syria direct continued the many-months-old fiction that "Syria is nearly pacified." Syrian rebel despatches via Cairo kept up the equally long standing imposture that the French are seriously hard pressed by the rebellious Druses and Arabian tribes. The status quo continues to lie betwixt these untruths. The French are policing and mopping up Syria but at a cost in gold and blood which France can ill afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: New High Commissioner | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Tuesday I woke and returned to work. I chafed with the terrible rage of the powerless. The padrone made me mad. The third day he said to me: 'You are too well dressed! . . .' That phrase was meant to convey an insinuation. I should have liked to rebel and to crack the skull of this upstart who was accusing me of laziness while my limbs were giving beneath the weight of the stones-I wanted to shout out in his face: 'You coward, you coward!' And then? The man who pays you is always in the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bricklayer's Autograph | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

Father Anguiano, 70, protested: "I did not mean to rebel against the Church. ... I think the Holy See has been misinformed regarding the religious situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Mexico | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Four columns of Italian colonial troops set out with two detachments of machine gunners last week to mop up the Jebel-el-Akdar, a mountainous rebel-infested region, whence the peace of Italian Cyrenaica?a coastal area directly across the Mediterranean from Greece?is often threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mop | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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