Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle of the Bridge. Konitsa had been picked as the capital of the Communist rebels' newly proclaimed "provisional government." When the battle began, the government garrison in the besieged, isolated town consisted of less than 1,000 men. Konitsa's normal population of 5,000 was swollen by refugees. Rebel shells struck terror among the civilians...
Christmas Eve in Athens was peaceful. On café terraces around Sintagma Square people sipped coffee in bright sunshine. Flower stalls did a rush business in hyacinths, violets and almond blossoms. Hardly anyone heard the guerrilla announcement when it was first made, because Athens has been jamming the rebel broadcasts from the north...
...Washington, Vermont's Senator George Aiken and New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey let go a rebel blast against the do-nothing, anti-everything politics of Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece. But bumbling Carroll Reece, who has Bob Taft's powerful support, appeared to be in ho danger. The insurgent New England Senators swing little weight around party headquarters...
...three numbers symbolize a great and striking change in world diplomacy. At No. 9, John Adams was a scarcely tolerated rebel whose main job was to keep the U.S. out of Europe's troubles. At No. 6, even though he was a dogged Anglophile, Walter Page was but a second-level member of London's diplomatic corps in an age when most Americans still thought of international diplomacy with all the repugnance of a Victorian lady contemplating...
...turned to philosophy. At the University of Illinois, he got a job teaching logic ("horse sense made asinine," Bode now calls it). A few years later, he was appointed professor of education at Ohio State University. Wherever he went, his agonizing doubts shadowed him. Though not by temperament a rebel ("I tried to be a good boy"), he could find no authority for moral standards in traditional creeds or dogmas. In desperation, he turned to the works of William James and Dewey, first to criticize, then to be converted...