Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of the Italian troops in Spain, Negrin termed them detriments to the Rebel cause, adding that the only reason they weren't completely destroyed at Guadalajara was that "they ran too fast for us to catch them...
Negrin stated that he has been unable to communicate with his friends in Spain since the Rebel victory. The plight of Spanish refugees in France, of whom there are some half-million, is equally dangerous, for they are new subject to the vengeance of their former enemies...
According to President Lowell, Professor Tausing was one of the first economists to rebel against the English school of Ricardo and his fellows and to base his works upon painstaking study of the economic conditions in this country...
...lured by the city, the city man's wistful memory of his old home; 3) the interplay of life with life among people who know each other well. Something of the old Winesburg mystery glows through his gentle prose. But now the musings are less those of a rebel paint manufacturer, fed up with it all, than those of a small-town editor, himself jest folks...
...Southern Rebel. South of what was once the Mason and Dixon border, rebellion has been mixed up traditionally with conservatism rather than with reform. Lawrence Lee is a Jeffersonian Southerner, an Alabaman who went north to Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity...