Word: rebel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...James Merritt, 47. They announced a couple of headline-grabbing conservative policies: support for the death penalty and an explicit ban on women pastors. But for all its productivity, the meeting was awfully quiet. This was because most of the usually rancorous, relatively liberal opposition sat it out. The rebels, who call themselves the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will also meet in Orlando. They will be lodged at Disney World, enemy territory for the main body of Baptists, who have been boycotting the park for three years because of its "Gay Days." The rebel baptists are getting a group discount...
...pursuit of retreating rebel soldiers, Tavington comes riding up to Martin's plantation at the head of a cavalry troop. Insouciantly, even rather jauntily, he orders all the Americans--most of them wounded--to be shot, the plantation fired, and for good measure, he marches Gabriel (by this time a dispatch rider for the valiant Colonel Harry Burwell, played by Chris Cooper) off to be hanged. When one of Martin's other sons tries to rescue his brother, he is coldly murdered...
...rammed a harpoon-like torpedo into the U.S.S. Housatonic. Then, as the Hunley backed away under the power of its hand-cranked propeller, it triggered the torpedo's charge, sinking the Yankee warship in about three minutes. It was the first enemy ship ever lost to a submarine. But Rebel jubilation was fleeting. Minutes later the Hunley unexpectedly sank, creating a mystery that has endured to this...
...test and may not get a high school diploma, more and more people will start raising their voices," predicts Jim Bougas, a middle school history teacher from Cape Cod, Mass., who was suspended twice for boycotting the state exam. Back in Boston, the protesting students are amplifying their rebel yell. Their summer plans include gathering signatures on petitions, lobbying state politicians and taking a few more treks up the Freedom Trail. Maybe by that time, Cellucci will have loosened up his schedule--and brushed up on his 13th century Chinese history...