Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost all his hair in a Jap prison camp in the Indies, worked so hard to draft his speech to The Netherlands States-General that friends feared his health would break down. After he made the speech, interpreting the proposed pact between the Dutch Government and Soekarno's rebel Indonesian government, Holland's politicians and people were still as unhappy and undecided about the issue as Pieter de Jong...
...anti-Bevin rebellion in the Labor Party's ranks was the subject of a terse party caucus. Rebel Leader Richard Grossman, after stern, reproving lectures behind locked doors by Prime Minister Attlee and other party fathers, had apologized and promised not to do it again. But, said one Labor M.P.: "It's like the man who finds that his wife has been unfaithful. She says she's sorry, and they are to patch up the marriage and carry on for the sake of the children. But the honeymoon is definitely over...
Nominations for the presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...
This was not the stringless independence Java's rebel President, Dr. Soekarno, had sought, but it was close enough to be palatable to most Indonesians. However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists...
Monday, April 26, 1937 was a market day in Guernica. The town's 7,000 population was swollen by 3,000 Loyalist refugees. Francisco Franco's rebel armies were still far away-but at 4:30 p.m. German Junkers and Heinkels started coming over in waves, every 20 minutes. They dropped 1,000-pounders (monsters at that time) and great showers of incendiaries, and since there was no antiaircraft they flew low and machine-gunned fleeing victims...