Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-trained troops, Smith probably had the edge, for his most effective fighters included a case-hardened cavalry division and contingents of marines. Smith's opposite number in the rebel camp was tantalum-tough, moonfaced ex-President Rafael Franco, leader of the vaguely leftist Febrerista Party...
...Rebel Talk. Brazilian newsmen, who had flown to rebel headquarters, reported that the city swarmed with insurgent troops, "obviously in the last stages of preparation for a march on Asuncion." Before much blood was spilled (only one patrol clash had been reported), Government and rebels might still arrive at some kind of an understanding. Wily Dictator Morinigo was reported to have sent emissaries to the rebels. He also sent a mission to Buenos Aires to ask help from Argentina. If Buenos Aires gave him no hope (and there was no indication that it would), Morinigo would talk seriously with Concepcion...
Stranded Passengers. Juan Chicoy and his sharp-tongued, sluttish wife, Alice, ran a restaurant, filling station and garage at Rebel Corners. Once a day, Juan in his bus, Sweetheart, shuttled Greyhound bus passengers from one main north-south highway to another. Juan was a dark and sinewy Irish-Mexican whom his wife loved passionately and feared a little "because he was a man, and there aren't very many of them...
...made a living stripping at stag parties for businessmen. Louie had a reputation for making time with what he called "pigs," but though he got this girl into the seat behind him he didn't make much time with her before she got off at Rebel Corners. By that time the first downpour had drenched the valley, the river was rising dangerously, and Sweetheart was ready to start...
...week long the Democrats had been snickering as Republicans lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan's Albert Engel rebel. Engel's plan: double exemptions to help the low-income group. The fracas had ruffled the G.O.P. leadership itself when Illinois' Leo Allen, Chairman of the Rules Committee, threw in a plan of his own. Allen would give the little taxpayer a 20% cut, the big fellow less. Laughing...