Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the rebel raids began, the Democratic National Committee sputtered with wrath. Said a headquarters statement: "A small clique of men who have assumed dictatorial powers . . . has deprived the people of Louisiana of a free ballot ... a high-handed and arbitrary act which will not go unchallenged...
Aptly, "shag-hair'd" rebel Jack Cade was the self-styled leader of the Third Party . . . who elsewhere says to his vacillating mob of followers...
...Greek Government believed that Markos had fled into Albania. Wherever he was, the backbone of his.government of "Free Greece" was broken. Greek army sources reckoned that it would take a few weeks to complete mopping up in the Grammos area; they expected the roundup of other rebel groups scattered throughout the country to be completed by the end of the year...
...South's dissident Dixiecrats had twice broken all modern records for emitting rebel yells, waving the Confederate flag, and complaining about the North. Nevertheless, with the Democratic National Convention and their own Birmingham convention behind them, they gathered in Houston last week and went through the noisy act all over again. The occasion: Governor J. Strom Thurmond's formal acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination...
...commander, rather than more American supplies, was needed to speed up the campaign. Their choice: Lieut. General Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff at Athens GHQ and main author of the plan for Operation Coronet. As Kitrilakis took over, the stalemate broke. Greek assault troops broke through the old rebel defense line and kept on going...