Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sewell Avery's scalp. But in the final showdown Sewell Avery won handsomely. Dazzled by a 60% jump in profits before taxes for the first quarter of this year ($12.6 million v. 1944-3 $7.9 million), some of the rebellious stockholders thoughtfully laid aside their tomahawks. Final score: Rebel Patton: 1.8 million votes; Sewell Avery's slate of directors: 3.7 million...
...small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very young, "but pale, haggard and trembling. He stood by the fireplace, with a tall glass of whiskey and soda at his elbow and talked wildly of persecution. The police, he said, were after...
Victorian Rebel. When his little girls had gone to bed and the lonely bachelor was alone in his rooms, he would find himself face to face with what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself...
...onetime Secretary of the Treasury, who had taken his last Senatorial oath at his Lynchburg home, in carpet slippers, came no public response whatever. But this week reporters heard that the question of resignation had been put up to him. The man Franklin Roosevelt once called an "unreconstructed rebel" gave his answer...
...Rebel" Smith tells his story of "Sherman's Retreat" through Georgia. "Why, it was another Dunquerque," says the man from the Deep South. When accused of being related to a carpet bagger, Smith was seen gathering his Confederate flag and picture of Robert E. Lee, and heading home...