Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sepulchral voice brought an impertinent clamor of "Louder." Rhode Island's full name-The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation-was carelessly omitted. Mr. Gifford modified the formula when he announced that Massachusetts "seemed" to have gone for Smith. "Whoopee!" cried the Democrats. A Republican rebel yell punctuated the Texas and Virginia votes...
Among those indicted were the Brothers Herbert, most famed and feared by independent poultrymen. It was Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert who held under his pudgy thumb all the truck drivers; who was implicated in bombing the home of Rebel Poultryman Joseph Hasenfratz. It was Charlie Herbert who bossed the Shochetim Union (Jewish slaughterers); who disciplined independents by refusing to kill their chickens according to Jewish dietary laws...
During the brief lapse of five years since his death, a man who spent the greater part of his life as a mere exile, a prisoner, and rebel chief, has had his name immortalized in the minds of his countrymen. Throughout Russia, especially in the rural districts where peasants view with alarm any change in the seasoned order of crops, his image is often to be seen enshrined on a stone pedestal, illuminated with lighted candles. Out of a patriotic hero has sprung a veritable demi...
Shrewd Bachia Sakao, chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...
...British airplane from India, zooming above Kabul, the British Minister Sir Francis Henry Humphrys signaled: "All is well. Do not land on any account. Situation is improving." The "situation" seemed to be that rebel brigands were still in the vicinity of Kabul, though repeatedly repulsed...