Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the leadership of Sheik Said, the Kurds attacked Diarbekr in southern Turkish Kurdistan, entered the town, were driven out by the Turks. A despatch from London stated that part of the town had been destroyed by rebel artillery fire...
...John Reed, and Walter Lippman and a host of others--he remembers that these men were all given to an internal species of question and wonderment as to what four years of undergraduate life could possibly have meant to them Thinking along similar lines, the Senior likewise begins to rebel a bit. After three and one-half years in studies which by no means represented his free choice, he begins to see that now if ever should he be given his chance to overstep the checks and restraints of curricular study, and to give his near-approaching seniority or maturity...
...Krim, Moorish rebel against the Spaniards and Moroccan Sultan Mulay Yussef. These officers commanded Raisuli to surrender, informed him that his life would be spared if he did Abd-el-Krim's bidding. Raisuli surrendered, ordered his 16-year-old son and his nephew, Mulai, to proceed to Sheshuan and surrender themselves to the brother of the great Moorish rebel of the Riff country. He signed a letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written rudely...
...Premier's maternal grandfather was William Lyon Mackenzie, the "Little Rebel" of the Rebellion of 1837. His father's name was King and he (the present Premier) was christened William Lyon Mackenzie, but so distinguished a name is Mackenzie in Canadian annals that he decided to style himself Mackenzie King...
Cancer Once again the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "perpetual rebel" was announced. Once more it was denied.* But an operation was performed upon the body of the Chinese leader. It was discovered that his liver was cancerous. Doctors said his case was hopeless. Unkind critics said that there was now real hope for peace and unity in China...